I have been doing a lot of rainy day work to add to my fabrication tooling and ability in the garage.
SWAG Off Road provides some really nice “build it yourself” kits for a finger press break (and other things, that I welded up in a couple of hours and the new capability is being used almost daily – I bent some shelf brackets up the first day and that one job paid for the entire kit.
Needing the room, I removed my JD2 tubing bender from of my welding bench and built a rolling stand for it. Again, SWAG came through with a air/hydraulic conversion kit. No more mistaking a 90-degree bend in 2” square 3/16 wall tube for me!
The second tools build took a little longer than the first. Welding together the stand took a bit and then the SWAG conversation took most of an evening with the disassembly of the ratcheting bender arm, moving the bender, and because I did not clearly read the directions, I had to refit and remove the Harbor Freight 8 ton jack 3 times. Read the directions!
I also bought the gooseneck break dies from SAWG to help with thin gauge (up to 1/4”!) box and bracket building. They come in a laser cut flat pack and need to be cleaned up and welded, but that means that you can space the or group to you specific needs.
They got a layer of clear poly after the weld up and final clean.