Bending a 360 degree clam on a hossfeld | Problem Solving | Forum

Whats the material?
At first, I thought you wanted to bend PIPE in a 360- but then I realized "clams" were clamps, and its some kind of flat bar the easy way?

If so, you might consider doing it on top of the hossfeld, hot-
I use a variety of dies on the center pin, sometimes just a piece of pipe, other times big discs of steel with a hole in them, to bend metal all the way around- you can bend more than 360 this way.

These pictures show making a coil out of 3/8" round- cold, around a piece of pipe for the mandrel.
The second photo is actually 3/8" stainless, hot, because I had previously textured about 6 feet of it on the hammer with spring swages, which meant it wouldnt bend smoothly cold any more. Too irregular.
But I have used the same process, hot, to bend things like 3/8" flat bar.
Hossfeld makes a double height bending dog, and extra tall center pins, but those are both pretty easy to make your own, too.

1/4" x 2 the easy way should work up on top.
And plywood dies might last 100 parts- probably.
I tend to plasma cut 1/4" plate, and stack that, to make dies, as I have the plasma cutting table ten feet away, but wood is a time honored material for short run tooling.

For 2" wide, a taller bending dog would be a good idea- Hossfeld just welds a thicker piece on instead of their standard dog nose. You could do just weld an extra piece on top of the standard one, though, and then grind it off at some point if it got in the way.