Making Sense of Busbar Bending for Your Shop
Anyone who spends time in an electrical workshop knows that busbar bending can either be a smooth, satisfying process or a total nightmare depending on how much you respect the physics of the metal. It's one of those tasks that looks incredibly simple from the outside—I mean, you're just folding a piece of copper or aluminum, right?—but the reality is a bit more nuanced. If you get the angle wrong or crack the material, you've just wasted a potentially expensive piece of stock. ...