Bar Bending
Bar bending stainless steel the hard way.
Bending bars for helical strakes
Chicago Metal is bending bars that are round, half round, square, hexagons, and rectangular (also called flats) into rings and ring segments. Because bars are solid metal, these sections bend very well. Bending bars is the easiest when sections to bend are rounds, half rounds, squares, hexagons, and rectangular bars the easy way. Bending bars that are rectangular in shape, bent the easy way (y-y axis) look like a belt; bending bars that are rectangular in shape, bent the hard way (x-x axis) look like a metal washer. Everything else being equal, bending bars that are flat, bent the hard way, is the most difficult bar to bend. With the proper tooling, methods and machinery, however, bending bars that are relatively thin and wide can be bent to tight radii with no or minimal distortion. Often it is more economical to bend bars into rings or ring segments than burning these shapes out of plate: bending can provide a greater yield of usable material, i.e. less scrap. We can bend a wide variety of bars including hot rolled, stainless, aluminum, inconel, brass, copper and other alloys. We even bend rebar.
How to order the bending of steel bar sections found here.
Bar Bending Value-Added Services
We can also do additional operations including welding, punching, beveling, grinding, drilling, and machining,
Bar Bending Applications
Applications include rings rolled, beveled, welded and ground to be used as flanges on rail car discharge chutes; component parts for trucks, tractors, tanks, fan housings, wind towers, wastewater treatment equipment, and many more uses. We have cambered heavy bars as axels on Caterpillar tractors. And we have curved 4140 forged bars into rings and ring segments as gear blanks.
Contact us for more information on bending bars and the other services and applications we provide.
