Thick aluminum stock or bar

[redcrossnj]

I have some thick aluminum stock and I can't cut it anybody know of easy ways to bend it?

[GreenTruckR]

Hello, How thick is it? and whats the actual size?

[redcrossnj]

5/8 20 feet long

[Filthy]

try propping it up on something at a slight grade and running over it where you want to bend it. my truck can bend a lot of things that i cant

[hobo finds]

I think he can't cut it as he has no saw...

[IdahoScrapper]

Hard to be a scrapper without a saw. Prolly time to buy one. Or even a grinder with thin cutoff wheel would do it.

[GreenTruckR]

Well it sounds as though you are quite limited for tools. Perhaps you could use a tree, place it in the base of a large branch and muscle it till it bends. Or like sombody just suggested use your car / truck, back in the day, Iv'e jambed even steel stock through my bumper and frame and bend it over, around etc. I suppose you dont have a torch? you could slightly heat it and bend it, alum heats very quickly & easily.

I wish you Luck!

[skylinejack]

Oh wow....nevermind. Might be another kid. Dude, 5/8 in. alum. is not hard to bend. You can even stand on one end and grab it somewhere in the middle and just pull it on over and down.

[Enoch43]

You need to drop a twenty dollar bill on a cheap angle grinder and get some cut off discs for it. Also, a piece of aluminum that size might have value greater than scrap to somebody. Try to estimate the weight of it, figure out what the scrap value is, and then list it in the "Materials" section of craigslist for twice or 3X the scrap value........

[eesakiwi]

This has always worked for me.
Take a hacksaw, or a triangle file, make a deep sharp cut where you want it to break.
Now bend it at the break (the cuts to the outside of the bend) & it will snap cleanly.

If it bends a bit, cut deeper.

5/8th is 22mm. It'd be probably the perfect size to break cleanly without bending.

[redcrossnj]

guys its actullay a heavy duty aluminunm bleacher

[Filthy]

thats a lot of extruded.

[eesakiwi]

What did I say? 5/8 is 22mm... OMG! 7/8 is 22.22mm

5/8 is 16mm......

[myekem]

If it is a big bleacher... Either invest in a sawzall (which will pay for itself on something that big) or a gas powered cut-off saw. You don't want to be cutting up a bleacher with a hacksaw!!

[injunjoe]

Skilsaw armed with a plywood blade backwards and a tube of wax to lube the blade. Will cut like butter.

[G_P]

20 dollar Harbor Freight sawzall. Then go buy some decent blades.

[injunjoe]

20 dollar Harbor Freight sawzall. Then go buy some decent blades.

When cutting extruded aluminum a skill saw with a plywood blade will be the tool of choice to scrap this project. 10,000 screen room builders can't be wrong! Not sure where you are from but here in Florida it is pool cage country! Pert near every home has a screen room and they were cut with a waxed plywood blade!

[Ry4nscr4p]

Skilsaw armed with a plywood blade backwards and a tube of wax to lube the blade. Will cut like butter.

I'm definately goin for that tomorrow, will it work on stainless too? I have some fireproof stainless pipes coming from fire boxes that are laughing at my sawzall and grinder

[injunjoe]

I'm definately goin for that tomorrow, will it work on stainless too? I have some fireproof stainless pipes coming from fire boxes that are laughing at my sawzall and grinder

No it will not work for Stainless! Only Aluminum!