Tubing Bender ????

[Jesse N.]

Hey guys,

Anyone have any recomendations about what type of tubing bender to get. Looking for something that will bend 1 3/4 .134 wall mild steel and .083? wall moly. Standard NHRA cage materials. I don't want to spend a fortune, If I could find something that works well for under a grand it would be cool.

Thanks for the help.

[shaun callaway]

Re: Tubing Bender ????

https://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ct...emnumber=44094 bench top

https://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ct...emnumber=31980 pedestool mount



this one works pretty good havent had any trouble with mine. i used it to bend some tubing for a dune buggy.

[Ron Ward]

Re: Tubing Bender ????

This will be interesting to me as well.

[The Chief]

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What about exhaust tubing?

[shaun callaway]

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http://search.harborfreight.com/cpisearch/web/search.do?keyword=mandrel+bender

these hydralic ones have dies that go up to 3 inches

[BBR]

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Those orange ones do a good job of crushing exhaust tubing. DAMHIK

looky

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=4108271&an=0&page=0&gonew=1#UNREAD

[shaun callaway]

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i havent used the orange one. if i need exaust done i go to the exaust shop.

[Ron Ward]

Re: Tubing Bender ????

http://search.harborfreight.com/cpisearch/web/search.do?keyword=mandrel+bender

these hydralic ones have dies that go up to 3 inches

Shaun,

I have seen those... remember, the 3" refers to PIPE size. Pipe is measured ID whereas tubing is usually measured OD and by wall thickness. The orange benders work great for schedule 40 pipe.

Ron

[shaun callaway]

Re: Tubing Bender ????

http://search.harborfreight.com/cpisearch/web/search.do?keyword=mandrel+bender

these hydralic ones have dies that go up to 3 inches

Shaun,

I have seen those... remember, the 3" refers to PIPE size. Pipe is measured ID whereas tubing is usually measured OD and by wall thickness. The orange benders work great for schedule 40 pipe.

Ron

didnt think about that, like i said i dont have a need for the hydrolic one because i go to some one else for exaust or what not. my bench top works great for what i do.

[HillbillySailor]

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I'd be interested in this as well. The last tubing bender I used turned out to be a tubing kinker...

[blu65ramb]

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jd2.com Not that expensive if non-hydraulic, I used 1 3/4 x .134 tube on my cage and had to use a cheater bar about 4 foot long (actually used a piece of the tubing), but the unit is heavy duty and could take it. Mounted the unit on a frame work built from pieces of truck chassis frame rails and bolted it to the garage floor with four 1/2 bolts. Does a really good, no kinking. Haven't done the moly .083 The point I wanted to make with the cheater bar is it takes alot to bend that diameter and wall thickness by hand, better eat your Wheaties. ;D

[Dans 83]

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I'm with John... The JD2 bender does a real nice job for the price and you can always buy more dies if you need to bend another size pipe!

[Fordplay0621]

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Harbor Freight.

[Jesse N.]

Re: Tubing Bender ????

jd2.com Not that expensive if non-hydraulic, I used 1 3/4 x .134 tube on my cage and had to use a cheater bar about 4 foot long (actually used a piece of the tubing), but the unit is heavy duty and could take it. Mounted the unit on a frame work built from pieces of truck chassis frame rails and bolted it to the garage floor with four 1/2 bolts. Does a really good, no kinking. Haven't done the moly .083 The point I wanted to make with the cheater bar is it takes alot to bend that diameter and wall thickness by hand, better eat your Wheaties. ;D

Now thats what I'm looking for. Thanks

Now I just have to decide if I willing to cough up the extra coin for the hyd version.

[biginch]

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the harbor freight benders dont work well for chrome moly, they wrinkle it badly! i know i tried, anyone want to buy a cheap harbor freight bender?

check out ebay, there are some cage tubing benders on there.