Electromagnetic sheet metal brake! This is one of those tools that when you have one, you’ll never get rid of it! This is a Baliegh that I got used a few years ago, it uses electromagnets to clamp down material up to 48” wide 16ga thick and can make some pretty complicated bends with the adjustable clamping blocks. Obviously this is pretty simple and could have been done on a regular finger brake, but this certainly makes it easy. This is 16ga CR sheet that I used to make the grinder table surfa

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