Rated diameter and on what steel
Ask the ribbed bar maximum at your grade, and the strength it was rated at.
No DramaBuyer guide · Construction
A rebar bender is sold by the bar size in its name, but that size is for soft round bar; what matters is torque at your grade and the mandrel it bends around.

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Ask the ribbed bar maximum at your grade, and the strength it was rated at.
The mandrel sets the inside bend diameter. Check the supplied mandrels meet your design code for each bar size.
Manual stops, preset pedal angles or a multi bend program. Ask how repeatable the angle is.
A slow disc bends thick bar; a faster one suits stirrups.
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In GW40 the 40 is round bar capacity in millimetres. Three of five listings rated ribbed rebar at 32 or 36 mm.
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Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.
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| Require this | A pass looks like |
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| Bend your largest ribbed bar to 90 and 180 degrees on the correct mandrel. | No stall, and no cracks on the outside of the bend. |
| Bend 20 stirrups to one preset angle. | All inside the angle tolerance written in the offer. |
| Press the emergency stop during a bend. | The disc stops at once and stays stopped until reset. |
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An automatic stirrup bender fed from coil.
A rebar cutting machine first.
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We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.
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Every machine we source in this area is on the Construction page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.
Straight answers
In gearbox life, pin hardness and honest ribbed bar ratings. Test on your grade.
A bend on your largest bar, mandrels, angle repeatability and the emergency stop.
A Declaration of Conformity with the serial number, and instructions for the foot control.
Usually your company, when you buy direct. Your name goes on the machine or its papers, and you check the conformity file.
Contact
Send a machine, a quotation you want checked, or a question. We reply with what we would look at first.
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Please email info@nodramachina.com directly and we will pick it up from there.