Making custom Pro-Fit-like brackets

[Jacob]

Does anyone have suggestions for types of metal and sources for making custom L or Z shaped brackets, along the lines of the Pro-Fit cell phone mounts?

http://www.pro-fit-intl.com/mount.htm

Something along those lines, just for creating mounting points for radios without drilling when there are handy bolts just under the plastic trim pieces.

[JAYMZ]

I don't have the term for it but there is a very simply to use press that you can make that kind of stuff with. Take a peice of aluminum sheeting(whatever thickness you desire to a point) drill the holes where you want them and the place the sheet in the press and make your angles where you need them. My father has access to one and I don't know the name of it or anything. All I know is that it's about 12 feet long 2 feet high and 2 feet deep....sits on a workbench in the corner of the plant in his building.

[CHEFA2001]

I believe it's called a press or a lathe...maybe it was called a BREAK

I have used one with copper and aluminum for makign some flashings for a job I was doing.

The thing was about 50 years old, but it sure beat trying to use plywood to make those bends......

[JAYMZ]

The name is something like that...but this is a billion dollar paper company that he works for so they have a lot of the latest and greatest. The press is about 3 years old....this one is mechanical with motors and such...no elbow grease. Takes the fun out of it really but it beats the old one that had a 40 lbs lift on it that got real heavy after the 5th bend or so.

[walt10]

HI It is called a BRAKE. I used one to make my console for my truck. We also have a shear To cut sheet metal.
Walt