{"id":59480,"date":"2015-11-15T20:29:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T11:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=59480"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:44:41","slug":"three-roll-bender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20151115\/everyday-things\/three-roll-bender","title":{"rendered":"Three-roll bender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-1234386217\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_5912.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_5912\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5912.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5912-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5912-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a super basic three-roll bender, but it&#8217;s more than enough for what we need at Decoboco.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_5914.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_5914\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5914.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5914-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5914-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nBenders with small roll diameters for bending narrow widths are hard to find on the used machinery market. So we went with one of those sketchy-looking units you see on web shops. The handle is annoying, so we welded on a 1\/2-inch impact socket. Now you can turn it with a long 1\/2-inch ratchet or run it semi-auto with an impact gun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_5910.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_5910\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5910.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5910-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5910-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nWe&#8217;re tack-welding the seams together. We&#8217;ll forgive the melted spots.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_5908.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_5908\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5908.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5908-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5908-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nIt came out nice and round.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_5912.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_5912\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5912.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5912-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/DSC_5912-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easier than I expected. In the end, it&#8217;s simple: without the tool you can&#8217;t do it, with the tool you can. That&#8217;s all there is to it.<br \/>\nWe need a bit more work on it, so we&#8217;ll get to it when we have time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a super basic three-roll bender, but it&#8217;s more than enough for what we need at Decoboco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[158,132],"class_list":["post-59480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-things","tag-machinery","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}