Category: Press Brakes

The Part That Does the Bending Press brakes are almost synonymous with metal fabrication. Any serious all-purpose fab shop will have one. When someone needs to create an angled bend in a piece of plate metal, the press brake is the machine for the task. When tooling gets worn, a back gauge fails, or even […]

The Evolution of Workpiece Positioning As the long-ago blacksmith hammered away on a workpiece, precision was in large part determined by sight and touch, coupled with his years of experience. When machines that could work metal were invented, developed along with them were means of securing the workpieces in or on the machines so that […]

What Is Air Bending? Air bending is a common technique used by press brake operators in sheet and plate metal fabrication. It is a method of bending flat metal into an angle on a press brake using a punch and die to shape the metal through the application of force. Unlike the methods called bottom […]