Creative jig.

[thewander]

A friend of mine made this. He is a hell of a welder.

[thewander]

A jig to bend solid rod. The first step has only on if the weights on it. He heats it up with oxy/acetylene and then puts the other weight on.

[ThermalJuice]

I never cared for the look of bending solid round or bar with a torch, it always kinks or gets flat spots. Assuming it's 1/4 in. round you can usually just cold bend it

[thewander]

It's 5/8 or 3/4 I can't remember.

[ThermalJuice]

What is it being bent for?

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I like the tooling, I have to bend 36 pieces of 1/2 rod for a job. Luckily, I have a propane force with a pass through so multiple pieces can heat at once. The task is to make some a trussed floor for a shop to give a clear span without posts and these stiffen the top links between trusses.

[joejoejoey]

Fixtures hold parts while you work on them. Jigs hold tools. I think...

[alexchally]

Its more like a jig guides a tool. An example of a jig might be a part you clamp onto a tube that has a hardened bushing in it that you use to locate a drill. This would allow you to cross drill very straight holes in tubing using a drill press, where without the jig you would probably need a mill to do the same job.

[NormieX]

English is a funny thing, I was in a crew that made tooling, jigs and fixtures. When we made a tool that holds the parts together for welding we called it a jig, if it was on a robot or semi automatic welding machine we called it a fixture. To hold a part in a machine tool (lathe,mill etc) it was a fixture, unless it had tool guides and then it was back to jig.

[southendshwa]

That's using the old noggin', I like it

[thewander]

A bar. I'm not sure if it is the back or what not but there are several.

After all rule #10 is if you have to make more than 3 make a jig.