Tube Bending
- Thread starter Nitrohorse
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Here is some good tips for pipe bending........
http://www.youtube.com/v/GWT3N3m4bE4
I tried to find the thread and can't. Someone worked with the HF pipe bender and got tubing to bent without kinks and sand. Yes I said tubing, not pipe! If I remember right they took a piece of larger pipe cut in half and placed over the dies. This way the force was displaced better. I have heard of also using old cut-up welding gloves instead.
Dan
http://www.youtube.com/v/GWT3N3m4bE4
I tried to find the thread and can't. Someone worked with the HF pipe bender and got tubing to bent without kinks and sand. Yes I said tubing, not pipe! If I remember right they took a piece of larger pipe cut in half and placed over the dies. This way the force was displaced better. I have heard of also using old cut-up welding gloves instead.
Dan
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Well, I'm a proud owner of one of the most precise tube benders this side of the Yangtze River courtesy of the fine folks at Harbor Freight.
I stopped at the local scrap yard and was SOL. It appears that with the cost of steel rising by the minute, the once lowly junk dealer has now become a unionized "metalurgist" with bankers hours to match. The scrap yard is open from 8:30 to 4:30 daily with some Saturday hours (which were posted on the door but illegible). Anyhow, I plan on purchasing some longer length tubing and taking a stab at creating a MB.
I plan on using a 12 tooth jackshaft sprocket and a 40 tooth rear sprocket with a TAV30 and modified 6.5 Clone spinning the whole works.
I stopped at the local scrap yard and was SOL. It appears that with the cost of steel rising by the minute, the once lowly junk dealer has now become a unionized "metalurgist" with bankers hours to match. The scrap yard is open from 8:30 to 4:30 daily with some Saturday hours (which were posted on the door but illegible). Anyhow, I plan on purchasing some longer length tubing and taking a stab at creating a MB.
I plan on using a 12 tooth jackshaft sprocket and a 40 tooth rear sprocket with a TAV30 and modified 6.5 Clone spinning the whole works.
I have some nice little 1 inch .095 wall 4130 chrome moly tubing you can play around with on your bender only about $8.00 or $9.00 per foot . LOL .
Anything in metal is way over the top now with #2 scrap steel going for about $250.00 a ton the picking is not as easy so stock up when you find a good supply.
Steve
Anything in metal is way over the top now with #2 scrap steel going for about $250.00 a ton the picking is not as easy so stock up when you find a good supply.
Steve