Used Bending Rolls & Plate Rollers For Sale

Rolls, rollers, plate rolls, bending rolls: all the same family of machine, and the one that catches people out most often. A roller that is a shade too light will bow in the middle and give you a barrel instead of a cylinder. Four things decide whether a machine will do your work.

• Roll length. The widest sheet the rolling machine will take. As with any roller, buy wider than your widest job: a narrow part rolls perfectly well on a wide machine, and a wide one cannot be rolled on a narrow one at all.
• Thickness at full width. Every capacity is quoted on mild steel at the full roll length. Roll something thicker and the usable width drops away quickly, so check the figure against the job you actually do rather than the headline on the machine.
• Top roll diameter. This sets the smallest cylinder you can make. As a rule of thumb a plate roll will not comfortably roll much under about one and a half times its top roll diameter, so a big heavy roller is the wrong tool for small tight cans.
• Pinch type. Pyramid, initial pinch or double pinch. This decides how much of each end comes out flat, and it is the single thing people wish they had asked about.