Category: Bar Bending


Recently, a customer was looking for assistance with some steel bar curved in a spiral.  This customer had a repeat job in their shop which they had been making on their own for quite some time.  However, an evaluation of Read more…


Those of us in the curved steel business are sometimes asked to roll steel bars into a helical shape.  One application is for these helixes to be affixed to smoke stacks and chimneys to minimize the vibrating effects of vortex Read more…


140-foot-tall towers designed to have minimal environmental impact had maximum impact when they crashed to the ground in the desert near Las Vegas.  Despite extraordinary precautions to protect creatures as small as the desert tortoise and the sage grouse, the Read more…


We recently had a unique job with unique packaging requirements.  A customer was in need of helical strakes to wrap around a tower.  Strakes are helical flat bars that are curved the “hard way,” i.e. against the strong axis.  This Read more…


Curving rectangular bars can be done several ways: the “hard way”, that is, against the strong axis (if it were rolled into a ring, it would look like a washer); the “easy way”, that is, against the weak axis (it Read more…


In many cases, steel bending can minimize welding and reduce material waste on a component part for an OEM (original equipment manufacturer). For example, an OEM was designing a gear cover for pumps. The component part was a 1 x Read more…


Of course a picture is worth a thousand words, but what happens when you don’t have a picture? Customers call from the field to describe how they want their steel curved.  We love everyday references to help us describe the Read more…


We often receive orders for bending bars the hard way helically. While entering orders for such helical bending of stainless flat bar, I noticed that very often they have the same pitch—57.9 degrees.  Helical bending of steel sections can be Read more…


There is not a mathematical formula for determining the minimum bending radius of steel sections. To better explain this, lets look at bar bending. Steel is curved using a cold-roll bending process. Steel sections are put into a section bender Read more…


(Can a woodchuck chuck wood?) While attending various trade shows either for OEM products like storage tanks, antennas, agricultural and construction equipment, etc.,  I regularly see where the use of a curved steel section—produced by beam bending, bar bending, angle Read more…

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