Luckily, [Rupert] sent in a great tutorial on bending aluminum sheets for enclosures. To make his press brake, [Rupert] scavenged a few pieces of 38mm bamboo worktop scraps. After assembling a few ...

but bending a piece of metal with precision is difficult without a tool for it. That said, where a maker faces a problem, building a solution swiftly follows; and — if you lack a metal brake ...

FIGURE 2. The press brake overbends to the bending angle, then releases pressure and allows the bend to relax and spring back to the bent angle. The bend radius relaxes too—not by much, but enough to ...