bender

I bought a Hines bender and can't wait to try it out.I emailed them and instead of the 1" square die they let me trade for the 1" round die.For anything I have to do with this small stuff it should do just fine.I want to try my hand at making some frames.

Bought a Harbor Freight manual bender quite awhile ago and found a square piece of 3/4" tubing I had bent with it. The bender wasn't designed to be used for anything other than flat stock I guess, but I found what is referred to as a Die in my yard from some earlier project I think...

Well I thought I needed a tubing bender, so I went to Princess Auto and had a look at their cheap bender and thought it looked easy to copy. I bought a 12 ton air\hydraulic jack , the dies and rollers and got to work. Well it worked great for kinking pipe LOL. So with a little design...

If your interested in bending tubing, here's what I have found. I have been messing around with bending tubing for a month or so. I origionally made one from a HF style metal bender. I made a double set of billet aluminum dies for 7/8ths and 1 inch tubing. I copied this from pictures found here...

I am looking at buying a tube bender for 1" tube for frame and exhaust construction. I am trying to decide on which die radius to get. The smallest radius is 3" which is what I am leaning towards so for things with compound bends like a swing-arm to fit a wider wheel it would be possible to do...

All, I'm amassing parts for a bender that Frank puts out at Got_trikes. My main use is going to be minibike and gokart frames and restorations. The dies available are only as small as 3"R. The 66 Rupp DartKart and the minibike frame that I have, use a combination of both 7/8" and 1" tube. The...

Looking to make my own frame wondering if any one has any good info on a tubing bender that wont cost an arm and a leg to buy any help would be great thanks

The pic speaks for it's self. Found it on Cl Merced/Modesto I'm not 100% sure it's a Taco

if you where going to make minibike and go kart frames which 2 die sets clr would you get ? it would be for the grizzly tubing bender. which looks the same as the harbor freight one. thanks Gene

I'm looking for some one that would make me a couple of dies for my h b bender willing to pay let me know thanks.