Grab Iron Bending Gauge
Item #: 84745
Our Price $49.95
Make Perfect Grab Irons for Your Train, Aircraft, Truck and Military Models
If you've ever tried to make your own grab irons by eyeballing and bending wire into shape with a plier, you already know that it's almost impossible to make any two exactly alike. Our Grab Iron Bending Gauge has been specifically designed to quickly and easily form identical, precisely-sized grab irons from ordinary wire. Simply clamp your wire between the gauge's jaws at the selected size and bend to shape. Made of laser-engraved blackened CNC-machined steel for long life. Bends 21 sizes from .050 inch to 1.050 inches in .050 inch increments.
Customer Reviews of This Item
10/12/2017 6:59 pm
GRAB IRON BENDING GAUGE
All the wrong sizes
by MILW Modeler
I want to love this tool. It functions fine, but as a tool for creating grab irons, specifically HO Scale grab irons, none of the sizes are correct. It's pretty useless for recreating the commonly used sizes.
6/23/2021 10:37 am
GRAB IRON BENDING GAUGE
Scratch Builders Dream!
by SameOlGee -
A must have. This is actually the bending gauge Funaro & Camerlengo uses to produce the grab irons used on their painstakingly exact rolling stock kits. I've never had a problem with sizes when using it. Makes me wonder if the person who had problems simply didn't have the right measurements? It's a little pricey, but its laser-engraved and machined steel. I've had mine since '10. It's worth the few extra dollars. Do yourself a favor and grab one. Pun intended!