Thank you for showing a good “no heat” solution! I’ve got 20+ 1/2” rebar to bend and sitting there with my torch I was thinking, “there’s got to be a better way”. Keep on it!
Loved your video!! I am trying to get into metal artwork and it was soo fun watching you get right to the point with EXACT video and no music.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 you’re a cool dude! Ty
Just sitting down to make a sissy bar out of half inch twisted bar and was wondering how the Hell I was going to heat it… This was exactly what I needed to see, simple and to the point. Cheers!
Thanks for the video. I have about 40 pieces of 3/8" slick rod to bend, and with little metal working experience, was concerned on how to accomplish it. Think it will go easy now.
I watched this because I am out of oxygen and acetylene, I googled how to cold bend rebar. I was thinking if I "cold bent" my 1/2" rebar project, I would have wide radius angles, I didn't think of placing a pipe over the rebar to force the bend just above the vice...thanks for sharing.
This is one of those things that I wouldn't believe unless I saw it. I'm working on a project with rebar and I am over-thinking big time. I even used my forge, but like you said, waste of time and energy! This helps, Thanks!
Amazing! I never imagined one could cold bend 1/2 inch bar and I have always got it red hot, wasting lots of fuel and money in the process! Thank you for sharing!
I’m looking to bend a handle into a 4’ stick of 1/2” rebar. Not exactly what I thought on how to do this, but I think your pipe & vise idea will get me started. Thanks for the effort!
I thank you for the great video. As a farmer/prospector I always have need to bend items. I found the tip on allowing the thickness of material to be of great assistance. regards Johnno
First let me say great video for quick & easy no-heat bending!!! Starting out with bad info (0:31) though.... both versions of Mapp gas burn hotter than propane. Propane burns in air at about 2800F - 3200F - Map-Pro (what many people think of as mapp gas) is the new formulation of mapp gas, it burns in air at about 3400F - 3800F and takes about 5 minutes with a good torch tip to heat 1/2" rebar enough (bright cherry red or about 1800F) to make an easy stress relieved (non-breaking) sharp bend. Map-Pro is 99.5% propylene + 0.5% propane. Real MAPP gas (discontinued in 2008) is a liquefied petroleum gas that is a mixture of methylacetylene (propyl), propadiene, and propane. It can get hot enough to MELT most metals except Tungsten, as it can reach 5300F with a proper tip. I'm fortunate to still have nearly 2 full cans of real mapp gas, it can heat that 1/2" rebar to a bright yellow (about 2300F) for an easy bend in about 2 minutes.
Awesome, I need to make 4 rebar stakes (which I could not find to buy). I was hoping to find an easy way to make 1 bend in each. This is it Thank you!!!
Thank you so much for this helpful tips! that last part was especially helpful for the larger thickness of rebar and 'bending rebar'.. maybe update your keywords :)
Very good. I watched about 10 other videos on bending 1/2 square bar. They all spent alot of time and materials building benders that looked like they wouldn't last. Your way is fast and simple. I like it. Thanks!!
Do the same with 3 bolts, washers and nuts, 1 eyelet screw and nut, and a 4x4. Used to anchor it to my utility trailer with 2 clamps and bend rebar for cement pads and stuff. Sold the trailer so made same setup for my truck hitch... Save a lot of time and $$$...
Thank you sir, I just started working with rebar and welding some things together. My biggest issue right now is making letters out of rebar, but I’m learning from my mistakes and trying to get some pointers on UA-cam, once again, thank you for your videos. 👍
if you haven't already, look for Gavin Clark, he does a pretty good job of bending everything rebar including letters and has some pretty impressive knots as well, worth the look
I am actually making a rebar bender for a friend from some scrap angle iron I got laying around. I love working with metal and doing a lot of welding. Nice video btw. 👍🏼
Well I'm 2 years late for the party...lol. holy shit somebody using common sense . And in this case a definite amount of physics . Any bigger on the thickness and maybe then heat might be the advantage but on small stock sizes it's a great case of brawn over brains .. a good tug and it's done. Well done that man definitely worth the like
I built a fixture around a 1” solid round and bend 1/2” solid round hairpin legs all the time! I own a sawmill and make beautiful tables and benches with my 62” chainsaw mill! This is an easy product to make and can attest to your process! Nice video!!!😎
Thanks for this simple to use method. I plan to make some u-shape chrome grab handles for motorcycles out of 1/2 x 3/4 bar stock. It looks like this method would work.
I'll never have to bend rebar or square bar stock, but the video was very interesting. And, thanks for not adding music.
Thanks for your input. And no music needed, lol
Omg the endless music attached to videos 🤬.
Thank you for showing a good “no heat” solution! I’ve got 20+ 1/2” rebar to bend and sitting there with my torch I was thinking, “there’s got to be a better way”. Keep on it!
Thanks for watching. Please remember to share
Saved me a ton of money and agony.
The extra length concession in 90 degree bend on 1/2 inch rebar is a great tip for newbies like me.
Thank you.
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I’m so glad to see your show how to bender
Wow! The most useful technique I have learned in the past 12 months.
Thanks for watching.
Great video! Thank you for the tips! Making a project with 1/2” rebar right now and do not own torches.
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I was afraid I’d have to use heat, this is brilliant! Thanks!!
Thank you very much. Just saved $$ as this video found me!
great video, was looking for an easy way to bend rebar. thank you.
Hope you will check out my other videos.
Okay, I've seen the light. I've definitely been babying my vise all these years.
Yep gets it done, first of your videos I have watched, think I’ll look for another.
Take a look at my doing stuff videos, we have similar ideas
Loved your video!! I am trying to get into metal artwork and it was soo fun watching you get right to the point with EXACT video and no music.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 you’re a cool dude! Ty
Thanks
Agree! You get right to the point. Much appreciated.
Just sitting down to make a sissy bar out of half inch twisted bar and was wondering how the Hell I was going to heat it…
This was exactly what I needed to see, simple and to the point.
Cheers!
Simple and effective method, and what nowadays they call "sustainable". Thumbs up. And all explained with the lovely southern accent!
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Thanks for the video. I have about 40 pieces of 3/8" slick rod to bend, and with little metal working experience, was concerned on how to accomplish it. Think it will go easy now.
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Great job explaining your method of bending steel cold. Thank you.
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Thank you for sharing your simple skill that will save me $!!!
I watched this because I am out of oxygen and acetylene, I googled how to cold bend rebar. I was thinking if I "cold bent" my 1/2" rebar project, I would have wide radius angles, I didn't think of placing a pipe over the rebar to force the bend just above the vice...thanks for sharing.
Fast, easy and simple. If only all of life's problems could be solved like that. Thanks for the great tips. Nice job on the video.
Thanks for your comments
Most problems in life can be solved by sufficient quantities of high explosives... Or penicillin... :)
I use rebar a lot. Nice tips. Will definitely use these techniques in the shop.
Refreshing, simple, and I didn't need to buy anything. Actually put the wind back into my project.
Glade to be of help. Hope you check out my other videos and share.
Nice short and to the point video, Thanks for sharing!
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You are a legend. Such a brilliant concept.
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brilliant ! and no cheesy music
This is one of those things that I wouldn't believe unless I saw it. I'm working on a project with rebar and I am over-thinking big time. I even used my forge, but like you said, waste of time and energy! This helps, Thanks!
Happy to help. Hope you check out my other videos. And share.
Thanks for making this tutorial.!!!
Thank you, this information will come in handy for my next project!
Glade I could help. I hope you subscribe to my channel and check out my other videos. Thanks
Great video. I have been doing it the same way since about 1975.
Perfect example of “mechanical advantage “. Thanks for sharing.
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You must be my brother. We do and say the same things! Like the video, i’m cheap and don’t use my torch often. Wish I could ride the enduro too! 😂
Thanks for watching, Brother from another Mother.🙃
Perfect timing for what I’m working on. Thanks!
Great video
Excellent method - provided you have a rock-solid vice on a rock solid bench. Thanks for sharing.😊
I am old enough that I have done some bending like your video, but you are a craftsman and a metal worker, great job.😊
Hey, thanks for that. I hope you check out my other videos and share. If you are local, you could take one of my classes.
Just in time for my small project, good pointers to make it so much easier, thank you.
Very useful, was about to spend hours trying to work out what sort of burner I needed, Thanks.
Amazing! I never imagined one could cold bend 1/2 inch bar and I have always got it red hot, wasting lots of fuel and money in the process! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for checking me out. And sharing.
But the secret is the hollow bending bar. He did not tell us where to get it.
@@AARON12895 it's pipe
Lmao 😂
Thank you for keeping it simple!! I can’t wait to try it for my own projects
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Just saved me a lot of time and money! Thanks!
This was really helpful. I figured there was a way to not use heat with rebar, I've just never worked with it.
Thanks. Tried heat, this looks better.
I’m looking to bend a handle into a 4’ stick of 1/2” rebar. Not exactly what I thought on how to do this, but I think your pipe & vise idea will get me started. Thanks for the effort!
Just found your channel. Took up welding as a hobby after retirement. Great tip, thanks. Fellow tarheel......
Hope you check out all of them and share. Thanks
I like to see someone that knows what he is doing. Thanks
Thanks for checking out my videos. Hope you share.
I thank you for the great video. As a farmer/prospector I always have need to bend items. I found the tip on allowing the thickness of material to be of great assistance.
regards Johnno
Welcome, Hope you check out my other videos and share.
First let me say great video for quick & easy no-heat bending!!! Starting out with bad info (0:31) though.... both versions of Mapp gas burn hotter than propane. Propane burns in air at about 2800F - 3200F - Map-Pro (what many people think of as mapp gas) is the new formulation of mapp gas, it burns in air at about 3400F - 3800F and takes about 5 minutes with a good torch tip to heat 1/2" rebar enough (bright cherry red or about 1800F) to make an easy stress relieved (non-breaking) sharp bend. Map-Pro is 99.5% propylene + 0.5% propane. Real MAPP gas (discontinued in 2008) is a liquefied petroleum gas that is a mixture of methylacetylene (propyl), propadiene, and propane. It can get hot enough to MELT most metals except Tungsten, as it can reach 5300F with a proper tip. I'm fortunate to still have nearly 2 full cans of real mapp gas, it can heat that 1/2" rebar to a bright yellow (about 2300F) for an easy bend in about 2 minutes.
That's totally awesome keep up the great work
Thanks dude. Hope you check out my other videos and share.
Thanks for the educational video! Just what I needed for a current project.
im just a newbie and assumed i would need heat, so thanks for this
Awesome, I need to make 4 rebar stakes (which I could not find to buy). I was hoping to find an easy way to make 1 bend in each. This is it Thank you!!!
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Thank you for the knowledge shared in this video. Very helpful
Thank you so much for this helpful tips! that last part was especially helpful for the larger thickness of rebar and 'bending rebar'.. maybe update your keywords :)
Not for sure if this will ever get read, but that was very informative and I will probably being using that technique. Thankyou
Hey Mr. P. Thanks for your comment. The tips I give are the way I do things. And hope to have moor soon.
Great video. Simple concise technique of cold bending metal rods.
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Thanks Riley! And thanks for not adding any obnoxious music, just good, useful content.
LOL You are welcome.
Very good. I watched about 10 other videos on bending 1/2 square bar. They all spent alot of time and materials building benders that looked like they wouldn't last. Your way is fast and simple. I like it. Thanks!!
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awesome technique. Great educational video.
Thanks for the concise presentation. I have a small project to accomplish, and now I have the solution to it!👍
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Great idea. Thanks Riley
Great video thanks for showing
Do the same with 3 bolts, washers and nuts, 1 eyelet screw and nut, and a 4x4. Used to anchor it to my utility trailer with 2 clamps and bend rebar for cement pads and stuff. Sold the trailer so made same setup for my truck hitch... Save a lot of time and $$$...
My vice is used for a lot more than just bending rebar. You know, one tool doing a LOT of jobs well.
One of the best videos I've seen
Appreciated the straight to the point video!
Thank you for sharing this information! I am going to use your technique this weekend 👍🏻
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Nice jobs help me alot
Good to know
Thank you for a simple technique for bending short pieces of rebar.
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Very useful - thanks for sharing your expertise!
"It's about as mixed up, crap steel as you can get..." LOL.
AWESOME!!👍🏽👍🏽I’ve been looking for this type of work! To work on my sewing machine table ,center lowing platform!!
Thank you Sir! I learned something today! Sincerely, Mark Martin
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Thank you- Great Stuff !!
Best to you from Montreal!
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Thank you sir, I just started working with rebar and welding some things together. My biggest issue right now is making letters out of rebar, but I’m learning from my mistakes and trying to get some pointers on UA-cam, once again, thank you for your videos. 👍
if you haven't already, look for Gavin Clark, he does a pretty good job of bending everything rebar including letters and has some pretty impressive knots as well, worth the look
I am actually making a rebar bender for a friend from some scrap angle iron I got laying around. I love working with metal and doing a lot of welding. Nice video btw. 👍🏼
I hope you will pass it on. And check out my other videos
Thank you for sharing this. Very helpful.
Thanks, remember to share with others.
OK so to bend steel, are you saying that I don't need heat? That wasn't clear. 😀 Great video, really helpful.
Love this kind of content. No BS, to the point, no repetitive crap.
You got a new sub.
What about bending 1/2 SS rod stock cold?
Thanks for subscribing, hope you will check out my other videos. And yes, you can cold bend S.S. just use a longer pipe.
You just saved me a bunch of time and expense. Thank you Riley.
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An Excellent no nonsense, to the point video.
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Short sweet to the point very informative good job thank you
Thanks for watching.
Gas is indeed money! And your method is quicker time is Money also!Great idea
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Wonderful advice, thanks
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Awesome. I like it. Nice work.
Very good video, that will come in handy for me, I use to use heat I like ur way.
Thanks
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Thank you! Very useful.
Thanks for the video , i like the tube for 6:18 bending rebar
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thanks for the tutorial... My dad and I want to make a tree out of rebar and I was thinking the bending was going to be difficult.
Thanks...this is what i need for DIY project.
Very smart, thanks for the demo. Going to reinforce walls holding a heavy gate door..
Thanks for commenting
Would've never thought. Thanks for this.
Welcome.
Nice! I will definitely be doing this.
Well I'm 2 years late for the party...lol. holy shit somebody using common sense . And in this case a definite amount of physics . Any bigger on the thickness and maybe then heat might be the advantage but on small stock sizes it's a great case of brawn over brains .. a good tug and it's done. Well done that man definitely worth the like
Hey, thanks a lot. I hope you share and subscribe.
Thanks for the tips!!!
I built a fixture around a 1” solid round and bend 1/2” solid round hairpin legs all the time! I own a sawmill and make beautiful tables and benches with my 62” chainsaw mill! This is an easy product to make and can attest to your process! Nice video!!!😎
Thanks, hope you will check out some of my tables also. And share
Truly a great video, thank you will put it in practice.
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Thanks for this simple to use method. I plan to make some u-shape chrome grab handles for motorcycles out of 1/2 x 3/4 bar stock. It looks like this method would work.
Good info, thanks!
Your welcome, Hope you keep watching.
Great guidance!
Very helpful. Thank you
Nice tip young man
Regards
Steve UK London
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Very helpful. Thank you Sir.