[DanOSB]

very nice looking bumper.. r u going to be selling them for other veichles? or just toy only?

[Bigtoy302]

very nice looking bumper.. r u going to be selling them for other veichles? or just toy only?

I am just starting with Toyota. I will have others later.

[BobWarfield]

Looks awesome, bigtoy. Like some of the systems from Warn and others. I bet that press brake is grunting a little bit on those bends.

Cheers,

BW

[FUBAR62172]

In a word AWSOME! How much did the project cost so far??

[Bigtoy302]

In a word AWSOME! How much did the project cost so far??

I think I have around $8k into it.

[skippy]

Don't ask me how I missed this thread but I did. I just finished reading it from start to finish and wow! In a word, INSPIRING!

[Guldberg]

Do you by any chance have som CADs you would like to share?

[qokhanyilmaz]

good works.

[aadityadengle]

How do you have interfaced your Linear Encoder with PC (by means of Hardware)

[Bigtoy302]

No post on this in almost 12 years but the press brake still works but I would like to do some upgrades.

Right now it only has a single control valve and a single encoder on one side of the ram. This causes uneven bends on long parts. Not bad but a few degrees difference. So with todays technology I was thinkin about eliminating the proportional valve and pump and 5hp electric motor and maybe going to AC servos directly coupled to a hydraulic gear pump. One for each cylinder. Haven't looked into a bunch but shouldn't be that hard and should be a lot cheaper than adding another proportional valve. Those are about $6,000 each.

Right now I need to bend about 2-3 ' of 11-12 gauge stainless pretty accurately and don't really want to outsource or buy a real full size brake.

Also appears Langmuir has copied my design for their new 25t brake