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My initial attempt at making first bend went OK but not as nice as the second. It's kind of like marriage, you have to screw up the first one to get the second one right. The one thing that I noticed on both bends is that there is no way to get the small 90 degree to make a perfectly flat flange. it wants to curl during the bend, even with the thumb pressure attempting to push that dude over for a perfect 90 degree angle. The opposite end curving bend with the visegrip turned out to be the easy bend. I had to use my hand seamer to gently flatten out the end of the flange, shown by the green arrow in the picture. I know that when I dimple these holes that it also help to flatten the flange on this end as well.

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