Straightening a Bar

[TGB]

Thanks for the replies. I'll cobble something together and have a go. Not paying £136 for a press for one bar. If I acquire a couple more bent ones, I'd consider it.

[lakeyboy]

I put a bent bar in a 10 tonne press and it didn't straighten out... so I reckon you'd be better off with a new one

 

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[Darrin Turnbull]

Thanks for the replies. I'll cobble something together and have a go. Not paying £136 for a press for one bar. If I acquire a couple more bent ones, I'd consider it.

 

 

Only Joe King

[Stubby]

If you know anyone with a hydraulic log splitter you could cobble something up with it . You will have to slightely over bend it to get it to come back . hystaresis ( spelling ) and all that .

[cornish wood burner]

I put a bent bar in a 10 tonne press and it didn't straighten out... so I reckon you'd be better off with a new one

 

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You obviously didn't put it on something to over bend it as Stubby says.

If you have the luxury of a press you can regulate the " over bend" by increasing the spacer thickness.

Spacers and hammer over a protective piece of hardwood. Shot filled or rubber hammer might also work if they are heavy enough.

[Cob-logging]

Hi you can weld little circles on the top of the bent to pull it back then heat other side gentley but if you heat to much it will bent it other way

[Mike Dempsey]

I managed to straighten out a 20" husqvarna bar by putting it on 2 blocks with a gap in between and the bend pointing up the way. I put a block of beech on it to widen the area I was hitting and used a club hammer to smack the beech. Worked for me and I'm not a big bloke. I had only used the bar for about an hour prior to bending it so I was determined I wasnt going to bin it. It would be pretty difficult to tell it had been bent in the first place and works ok.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I have the clark one for harvester bars. It works. The bar is never the same again tho imo.

[skyhuck]

I put a bent bar in a 10 tonne press and it didn't straighten out... so I reckon you'd be better off with a new one

 

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If only this were true............as we would never bend a bar in the first place:001_rolleyes: