If you are trying to bend 1/8 X 1-1/2 flat the long way, (along the 8" direction) you may be in for a bunch of failures. Instead you should contact a local sheet metal contractor and have him cut you some strips of sheet. The failure rate of bending flat bar the long way is quite high because of the grain produced by rolling it into a long bar in the first place. When you bend along the grain, it tends to split. If however you get sheet cut against the grain, it will bend very nicely. You probably knew this, but a word to the wise is not usually wasted.
Rick Crawford at Smoky Forge
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If you are trying to bend 1/8 X 1-1/2 flat the long way, (along the 8" direction) you may be in for a bunch of failures. Instead you should contact a local sheet metal contractor and have him cut you some strips of sheet. The failure rate of bending flat bar the long way is quite high because of the grain produced by rolling it into a long bar in the first place. When you bend along the grain, it tends to split. If however you get sheet cut against the grain, it will bend very nicely. You probably knew this, but a word to the wise is not usually wasted.
Rick Crawford at Smoky Forge