Joining two pieces of 10mm stainless steel bar at right angles.

[Grizzly bearParticipant @grizzlybear]

Help please, Joining two pieces of 10mm stainless steel bar at right angles.

Before you ask, its for a Neff oven. Extra shelf supports, 4 off. They are £35 each plus post & packing. So its a DIY job.

One length is 410mm, and at right angles at one end is a 30mm length.

The original rods have a real sharp 90° bend. I intend to bolt them together using a M4 bolt.

I'm after the neatest configuration. Tools; ML7 & vert slide + it will not beat me.

Regards, Bear..

[Grizzly bearParticipant @grizzlybear]

Help

[Peter TuckerParticipant @petertucker86088]

Hi Bear,

I would bend them in the bench vice, making a tight bend with the hammer, remove any brusing with abrasive paper, and polish. Or you could cut, weld, grind, and polish.

Good luck.

Peter.

[Gray62Participant @gray62]

A drawing would be helpful giving thicknessess of materiel to be joined, overall dimensions, is it solid or tubular etc etc.

What grade of SS are you intending to use?

CB

[StovepipeParticipant @stovepipe]

Probably a silly question, but why can you not bolt the additional supports together in the same way as the originals ?

Dennis

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

As it happens I have just joined two SS bars at 90 degrees. On bar has a concave recess cut after drilling and tapping axially. The other bar is crossdrilled and counterbored to take the head of a turned down hex bolt that was then filed off flush. I was pleasantly surprised how strong the resulting joint was.

Ian

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

I forgot to say, in the picture above the bar is 16 diameter and the bolt is M10.

For 10mm diameter bar I would suggest using M6 with the head diameter reduced to 7 or 7.5mm.

Ian

[Grizzly bearParticipant @grizzlybear]

Hi Everyone, Thank you all for your input, Coalburner,Grade 304, the other details are in the O.P.

I haven't got welding equip.

Ian, that look like a nice job, that is the way I'll go.

I didn't think I could get a tight enough bend on it without it cracking, not got enough to experiment with.

Regards, Bear..

Edited By Grizzly bear on 04/12/2012 22:55:20

[SiddleyParticipant @siddley]

It'll bend 90 degrees just fine if you can get it red hot first, I sometimes forge pieces fron stainless.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

You could also cut a cope like Ian has done above and silver solder the two together, just use HT5/Tenacity No5 flux.

[Grizzly bearParticipant @grizzlybear]

Hello Everyone, I have just created my first album, please bear with me. Four pictures of the oven rods (Shelf supports). The job didn't turn out as good as Ians', but my customer was very pleased with the results.

Regards, Bear..

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