[TowerTalk] How is the best way to bend rebar

[monty taylor]

I used old fine toothed  7 1/4" skilsaw with the blade reversed.  Made a
good "endless" file!  Cut halfway through and break.

WB5GLB/since 1969

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> In a message dated 8/26/2006 11:45:58 P.M. Greenwich Standard Time,
> jimlux at earthlink.net writes:
>
> I'm  having a bunch of concrete work done for landscaping, and after
> watching  the guys bending and cutting rebar to go around curves and such,
> I'm never  bending rebar by hand or cutting it with a hacksaw  again.
>
>
>
> Cutting rebar is a piece of cake using a 7 inch grinding blade in a 
> circular
> saw.  It takes about 15 seconds to reach about 2/3  through  and then just

Folling this line of thought, try a "chop saw". They are available at Lowes,

Home Depot, and most hardware store at a fairly reasonable cost.  Keep in 
mind the size one can cut goes down in a hurry when cutting at an angle. 
Mine has a 12 or 14" wheel.  In 3 to 5 seconds it'll cut all the way through

a piece of 1/2" rebar.  A few seconds more for 1 to 2" steel angle. It'll do

3" steel pipe in 10 seconds.

OTOH you do need to be careful about the stream of sparks coming off the 
thing.  They are more than just a shower of sparks.  When it goes through 
that much metal that fast there is a *lot* of heat given off in that stream.

The ends of the rod will be glowing cherry red.

I have a dust collection system in my shop which works very well.  I was 
cutting 1" square steel tube with a 1/8" wall.  There is about 30 feet of 5"

flex hose going to the manifold.  After about the 5 th cut I noticed the 
first three feet of hose didn't look all that great.  It didn't catch fire 
and the sparks were cool by the time they got back to the collector, but 
little was left of that first three feet except the spring steel wire that 
gave the hose its shape.  it did do a good job of keeping all the crud off 
the floor though.  Chop saws make a real mess!
Outdoors you'd need to keep it away from dry grass, leaves, and paper.

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com (Use return address from home page)
> snap it at the cut.  I've done dozens of these and it's a  sure fire way 
> to go
> for the average guy working with rebar.
>
> Bill K4XS
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