Bending Stainless Steel Rod With Heat

Bar and flat bending of stainless steel.

Bending stainless steel rod with heat.

Place the two bolts an inch apart in your vise and tighten sufficiently so that the bolts will not shift. Light the oxy acetylene torch with the striker and set the torch to a neutral. Round bar flat bar sheet and plate can be bent using a press brake bending machine or ring rolling. Stainless steel is even harder to bend.

Stainless is weak in tension when heated and the mateial hot tears. How to bend a stainless steel rod step 1. Light the torch and adjust it to a neutral flame. Can this kind of bending be done cold without cracking.

A cold rolled bar is shinier than a hot rolled bar but is also harder to bend. Clamp the stock in a vise. Due to work hardening bending should be done quickly. The eastwood rod forming tool is a high quality industrial style tool capable of generating a powerful leveraged force to create 180 or greater repeatable bends in mild steel stainless steel and aluminum rods up to 3 8 diameter and flat stock up to 1 2 wide and 3 16 thick.

Clamp the stainless steel rod into the vise with the area you need to bend resting against the side of the vise. Most steel bars are either hot rolled or cold rolled. And would heat bending weaken the ss tensile properties. You can make simple bends in iron and steel using nothing more than a torch to heat and soften the metal.

Bending a 316 stainless steel rod 10mm 3 8 dia to a tight radius to make a u bolt that fits inside a 50mm 2 dia pipe. The stronger the steel the more the bend will approximate a v while the weaker the steel the more the bend will look like a u 2. If the stuff is 300 series stainless heating to red and then bending should work. Put on your safety glasses and leather gloves.

Position the rod in the vise between the bolts at the place where you would like to have the bend in the rod. The u bolt is to be 300mm 1 long. Or would that be preferable to heat bending. Some over bending will be required to counteract spring back of the bend.