Hydraulic Rebar Bender

[nelsonic]

Context:

As I've been preparing the rebar in the CAD model for the Sunroom: dwyl/home#14 (comment)
And learning all I can about rebar in retaining walls #4 (comment)
I've realised that the diameter of rebar we should be using is #5 or 16mm...
The "problem" with this diameter of rebar is that it's virtually impossible (or at least, very difficult) to bend manually.
If we do it "right", we have to bend most of the rebars so that they form around the corners.

If you want to see one of these in operation, watch: https://youtu.be/5OMOARVJj4A

Fast from Amazon DE

https://www.amazon.de/MaquiGra-Electric-Hydraulic-Reinforcement-0-130°4-16/dp/B0932SHYLX/

[nelsonic]

Basically the same product:
https://m.pt.aliexpress.com/item/32795628940.html

wish I’d thought about buying this sooner … ⏳🙄

[nelsonic]

At checkout the VAT is removed:

This means it's highly likely it will be blocked by customs on arrival in PT. 🙄
@iteles can I put your mobile phone number on this order and you keep track of when it arrives?

This will save us at least a week of time manually bending rebar
therefore the cost is easily justified in terms of our Burn Rate 🔥 💭

[nelsonic]

To be clear: this machine will more than pay for itself and will be easy to sell on if we need to release the cash after this project is done. If we ever do any other concrete form work e.g: dwyl/phase-three#116 something like this will be essential for building what we need.

[nelsonic]

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/RB-16-Portable-electric-hydraulic-rebar_1600425418593.html

Order total: USD 428.68

Estimated import taxes: USD $ 100.27

Total today is EUR 416.45 but crucially the value of the item is "only" €264 so the final customs/import fees will be lower. Pulling the trigger. 💸

[nelsonic]

"In Transit" ...

Link to check again: https://i.alibaba.com/globalBuyerIndex.htm

[nelsonic]

Full-screen shot of order:

Can you tell that I'm eager to receive this? ⏳ 🙄

[nelsonic]

The AliBababa parcel tracking is basically useless:

Still implies that the package is in China ... 🙄

But there was an update:

YIWU CN | Package has been released from warehouse，international tracking number: CB756012278DE,
2023-06-20 18:18:51

Using this tracking number CB756012278DE we can use parcelsapp to discover which service is being used:
https://parcelsapp.com/en/tracking/CB756012278DE

Appears to be DHL. 📦

Visiting DHL tracking we see that the parcel is already in Germany:
https://www.dhl.com/pt-en/home/tracking/tracking-parcel.html?submit=1&tracking-id=CB756012278DE

So it shouldn't be long now ... ⏳

[nelsonic]

Alibaba tracking suggests the package is still in Shanghai:

This feels like a bit of a regression ... 🙃
How does it take them 2 weeks to dispatch the package 🐌
when the payment left my account the day I placed the order? 🤷‍♂️

[nelsonic]

A week later ... ⏳
The AliBaba parcel tracking is a joke. 🃏
Good thing I wasn't holding my breath for the "Express Delivery" ... 🙄

[nelsonic]

4 days later ...

Map on "Shipping details" suggests the parcel is still in Shanghai ... 🇨🇳
But "history" below implies it's in Germany (DE 🇩🇪) "in transit" ... ⏳
Maybe next week ... 🤷‍♂️ (🙄)

[nelsonic]

@iteles on the AliBaba tracking page it says:

DWE总部 | Package has been signed for
2023-07-08 10:54:02

This was last Saturday morning before you left the house. ⏳
Was it actually delivered or is this a cruel joke and I need to follow-up with the seller/DHL? 💭
Thanks. 🙏

[nelsonic]

The DHL tracking page suggests it was delivered on the Friday:
https://www.dhl.com/pt-en/home/tracking/tracking-parcel.html?submit=1&tracking-id=CB756012278DE

Going to look around the house in the usual "goods in" places and see if I can find it. 🔍 🤞

[nelsonic]

Arrived! 🎉

[nelsonic]

Used it extensively when preparing the rebar for aft deck:

Mounted it to the wall:

Will be using it again for the next part of the SunRoom.
Closing this issue as nothing else to be done on this. ✅