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No alodining or anodization of the part prior to bending. I did polish, then bend, then polished again on a subsequent part. I also...

Thanks for your thoughts. Yeah, bending angle without cracking seems to be quite difficult. It's in the plans and is the part that is at...

Thanks for the replies. It would seem that the only way to guarantee the bend radius in the second method is to have a steel rod in the...

the issue is the radius of bend.....both methods shown in the video the "bend radius" or the radius of the metal on the inside of the...

Thanks for the feedback. The way I bent it was the second method shown in the EAA video (3:16)...

Small cracks become complete failure almost immediately when the part is loaded. If your part is used to hold the compass correction...

When you bend on a small radius, the material at the outside of the bend goes through a lot of the strain available in that alloy. The...

There are many bend radius charts found with a google search. 1/8" (.125") 6061 calls for a bend radius of about 2.5 X thickness so if...

Hello All, I bent some 1/8" aluminum angle (closing the 90 degree to something smaller) and noticed some cracking on the surface, using...

Solid rivets installed in all open holes... even tooling-holes and holes remaining after something was deliberately removed...

So, that was my original thought as well, and it makes more sense to me than to replace with a 3/16 bolt or screw because the rivet will...

Thanks all for the tips The rivet was supposed to be standard 1/8" pull type, stainless steel, protruding head for two 0.032" 6061T6...

I overdrilled a rivet hole and tech support suggested I use a screw instead of a larger sized rivet. I'm trying to understand why that...