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06-17-2010, 04:47 PM
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| Moderator Rule Breaker   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Austin, Tx
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|  Bending soild rod
What you guys using to get tight radius bends for 1/8, 3/16 up to 1/4'' solid rod.
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06-17-2010, 05:05 PM
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| RCC Addict  Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Yelm
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I just use my bench vise. Works great for mine, and it is made from 3/16" solid rod.  |
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06-17-2010, 06:22 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cleveland, OH
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Heat it up and you can get a nice tight bend:  This tie rod is 1/4-inch stainless. |
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06-18-2010, 02:38 PM
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06-18-2010, 07:10 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: jacksonville
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seems like it would work but the design doesnt look like it would yeild the tight bends your looking for
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06-18-2010, 07:19 PM
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 a bench vise work alright to for anything up to 90*I use this made by eritex   Last edited by Wicked_Jester; 06-18-2010 at 07:22 PM. | |
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06-18-2010, 07:32 PM
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06-18-2010, 07:38 PM
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| Say hello to my dactylion  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: On the Boat to Whore Island
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Nothing better for solid rod & tight radius bends them this: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...P?I=LXGFW4&P=8  |
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06-18-2010, 07:40 PM
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BTW will bend about a 10mm diameter... I'm told you can even coil with it, but I never tried. | |
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06-18-2010, 07:55 PM
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10mm should be plenty..  You put the bender in the vise and get after it ? Have any pics of tight radius bends with the K&S bender ? | |
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06-18-2010, 07:58 PM
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06-18-2010, 08:04 PM
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bends solid rod with ease Lead Sled cman_1500w got one he is a TX local and you might be able to hook with him and use his jfab has this one in the vendor section http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=180735 |
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06-18-2010, 08:04 PM
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How well would War pigs bender do with solid rod ?  |
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06-18-2010, 08:06 PM
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Jfab hasn't been on RCC in over month. | |
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06-18-2010, 08:08 PM
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06-18-2010, 08:13 PM
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06-18-2010, 08:15 PM
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What size rod is that ? Looks like 1/8'' | |
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06-18-2010, 08:26 PM
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06-18-2010, 09:10 PM
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| Quarry Creeper   Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Duluth
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For real tight bends I prefer my torch heat it up red hot asnd bend any damnm shape you want. 3/16 bends like butter
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06-19-2010, 04:33 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Flat Orlando
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Gotta be careful about heating Aluminum til its red hot. It will seriously weaken it. Of course it depends where you are going to put it. As a tyie rod, it'll be fine. Structurally it could fail. Harbor freight sells a bender. Sells for $5 and bends 3/16 to 1/4. Dunno how tight. I haven't used it yet, its just gathering dust on my bench. A bunch of guys posted photos of their "homemade" set up, and they are spot on. Any machine shop or fab shop would do the same thing. I just wouldn't use heat on anything but stainless. |
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