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Most buyers start by asking what tonnage they need. The better question is what is constraining them: the power at the wall, the height of the ceiling, the depth of the part, or the length of the bed. Answer those and the machine picks itself.

The work

Leave blank for the 8 × thickness rule of thumb.

The building

How far into the machine the workpiece reaches past the uprights.

The work, continued

Anything else that applies.
Tonnage this job needs
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with a 20% working margin
Fill in the work and building details to see a recommendation.
Deepest part clears—
Bed length—

A first filter, not a specification. It matches your constraints against the lines we build. Where your answers fall outside what we make, it says so rather than selling you something close enough.

How to read the result

The tonnage at the top is the same air-bending figure thetonnage calculator produces. Everything below it is constraint matching: your part depth against throat depth, your longest part against bed length, your power against what the machine needs.

A recommendation that ignores your constraints is worthless, which is why the power question comes before anything else. A 220V single-phase supply changes what is possible more than a difference in tonnage does — readwhat single phase actually limits before you commit.

If nothing comes back, or the result says we are not the right supplier, that is a real answer and not a failed form. Tell us what you were trying to do and we will point you somewhere useful if we can.

Get the full configuration

This selector narrows the line. Send the same answers plus a drawing of your heaviest part, and we will come back with a full specification, tooling and a quote.