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Explore Princess Auto's full range of metal fabrication tools—brakes, benders, rollers, presses, and more. Perfect for custom auto work, shop projects, and repairs.
Bending Brakes
A metal brake is designed to fold or bend sheet metal. Brakes have varying degrees of bend radiuses and, depending on the model, can bend material as thick as 20-gauge mild steel. Some models have a fixed set of plates for bending, and other models have adjustable dies for more intricate bends.
We carry a whole pile of metal brakes in all popular sizes and types, including vise mounted!
Metal Tube and Bar benders are used for shaping flat, round and square in solid or hollow metals. A variety of dies are used for different types of bends. Pipe benders use a series of dies for a variety of diameter pipe.
Metal benders are great for custom scroll work, pipe bending, custom automotive, motorcycle frames, roll cages and tons of other metal forming projects. Princess Auto has you covered. We carry many different metal benders, from gear driven tubing benders, small to large universal benders, portable hydraulic bender kits to large 20-ton tri-pod hydraulic benders. We even carry a new engine driven rolling pipe bender to get the job done…no matter how big or small. Who needs super-strength when you’ve got tools like these!?
Sheet Metal Rollers
Get a bead on our line up of sheet metal rolling machines like Slip and Bead rollers, English wheels or a rotary machine. Sheet metal always looks better with curves…
Metal rollers curve and form sheet metal. Some models have long smooth rollers for making cylinder shapes; other metal rollers like bead rollers and rotary machines have interchangeable dies, for making rings, beaded edging and crimping for added strength and rigidity. The thickness of sheet metal will determine the type and size of the ideal metal roller.
An English wheel is a forming tool used to make gorgeous lines and curves in sheet metal. Think, sexy curves on a chopper gas tank or those sweet lines on your car body --all made possible by an English wheel. Sheet metal is manually pushed back and forth through a set of dies. Depending on the type of die selected it will curve the sheet metal, thus shaping it. The bottom die is adjustable, and the top die is fixed. Adjusting the height of the bottom die will squeeze the sheet and then the curve is formed by moving the sheet back and forth.
Metal Stretcher & Shrinkers
MetalStretch & Shrinker Sets are one of the most useful tools in your autobody arsenal. Used to stretch and shrink metal in order to make curves for perfect-fit rust-repair metal work around wheel openings, door jambs, windshield channels and trunk gutters. When you actuate the jaws, they grip and pull the metal together or spread it apart. The shrinker pulls the metal together and in turn, curves the piece inward, while the and the stretcher pull the metal apart for an outward curve. We’ve got them in regular and heavy duty.
Tube Notches & Metal Shears
Need to make the perfect cut in metal tubing or sheet metal? Try our tube notchers or metal shears.
Tube notcher as very useful around the shop in joining two pieces of tubing. Tube notcher cut the tube at the precise and angle via a built-in circle cutting bit and are powered by drill press or hand drill on our vise mounted version.
Specialty Combo Machines
Sometimes in nature, mutations occur that are advantageous to survival, well no different here. Check out our combo metal working machines that combine similar complementary functions into one beast.
Shop and Arbor Presses
Need to put the squeeze on something and hopefully not someone? Shop presses are extremely useful for installing or removing bearings, u-joints and ball joints using extreme force via hydraulics. Force ratings vary per unit and ratings are in ton capacity. A hydraulic ram is used to exert this force onto the work piece. Hand pump bottle jacks, and air/ hydraulic rams are available depending on your needs.
Princess Auto carry the largest in-store assortment of shop presses and accessories in North America. Our wide range covers everything from small benchtop 1 ton Arbor presses to our BIG 50 ton floor mounted shop press. Our range covers entry level hand-pump hydraulic units to powerful pneumatic units that have optional foot controls for hands free work. We also carry of full complement of safety cages and Poly carbonate shields for every regular unit we stock. Also, be sure to check out our accessory die kits for our line of shop presses.