Thread: Home made sheet medal brake??.

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Yup. A friend and I built a 50 inch brake a few years ago. We used 4" x 3/8 angle and reinforced that, still flexed way too much to brake 4" of 22 guage, but it did work ok on shorter stuff. If I was going to need one much I would buy a pan brake, 600-$700 will get a pretty good one. For a straight brake that $410 one looks like a pretty good deal. I like building my own stuff too but having "been there, done that" I would bet I had way more than that into time and materials for a brake that didn't do what we designed it for. Maybe if you could use something like T-11 instead of mild steel it would work.