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06-21-2011, 09:51 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wayne county. PA
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also try tightening the bolt so the tube don't/can't move is what i do........bob .... |
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08-29-2011, 08:56 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Walnut Grove
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when you use this bender, do you fill your tube with sand or water? | |
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08-30-2011, 04:42 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wayne county. PA
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08-30-2011, 05:21 PM
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| Rock Crawler  Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: bridgeport
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Great job!...any vids for all the non believers?..i think some are thinkin your bending it with another bender then putting it in yours to snap pics?..great homemade job! I like mine,vise free...      |
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08-30-2011, 05:51 PM
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Thats cool man... thanks for sharing.
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08-30-2011, 10:01 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wayne county. PA
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yeah i'll get a small video up in bout a week when i finish version 2.0 with a bigger work area....i'll show how i bend tube to keep it from kinking/flatening out ...........bob.... |
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08-31-2011, 02:09 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: miami
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I need one of those !!! |
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09-11-2011, 07:26 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wayne county. PA
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ok i have ver 2.0 done of my bender ....i made the platform 6" x 8" to work on and a handle to move the tube around the dia.... drilled two 1/2" holes and pounded 1/2" round bar stock into them as vise studs to hold the bender....  the handle is 1" x 3/8" bar stock and has a 5/16" hole to ride on the 5/16" bolt the dia is made from....i used an old screw driver that was 5/16" round as the stud in the handle....  the dia was a bolt that the head was taken off so i had no threads for the handle....the stop stud is just a 5/16" bolt with the head removed as well....  here is a piece of scrape 3/16" brake line i bent up to see how tight of a bend i can get before it kinked, no kinks folks ....  it started out as a shock hoop that's not going to be used like the one next to it....  this is what i did to it  .... i like the way it works much better then the thin bar stock i had the first one made from....all i have to do to it is use a sanding flap disk to smooth out the surface and the handle, thx fer drooling er looking  ..........bob.... |
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09-13-2011, 07:19 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: central VT
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Wow, way to work with what you got. If it weren't for the pics, I wouldn't believe that it was possible to bend tube like that without a properly radiused die. |
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09-13-2011, 08:06 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Outdoors
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Hey Bob- version 2.0 is sweet! how do you keep from putting a dent in the tubing on the inside of the bend? (where is hits up against the bolt)  |
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09-14-2011, 08:22 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wayne county. PA
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the washer is the key, it keeps the tube from expanding outwards thus creating the dredded kink ....if the tube can't expand it can't kink ........bob.... |
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09-15-2011, 07:39 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Nevada
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Thanks for posting this I'm about to do some brazing for my Wraith, I think this will help out in those tight spots |
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09-20-2011, 09:47 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: panama city
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thats the best . ive trashed so much line its ...rrrrah. but now this is gr8 with the washer-crimper-keepefromer uh patend #11877 yeah thats the ticket  |
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09-21-2011, 01:01 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wayne county. PA
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wow just seen over 5,000 look-see's view's on this thread, people must really like my bender  ....thanks all who posted positive comments to this thread and glad i could have shown how the MacGyver in me does shit ..........bob.... |
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09-21-2011, 08:08 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: PATAGONIA, ALMOST AT THE END OF THE WORLD!!!
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Hey bob, really nice tube bender you have got, thanks to share it with us you know I’m getting stuff to start a tube chassis project as soon as I can, maybe this is the main problem to me at this moment, just NOT ENOUGH TIME !!!How about the video you promise, I’d really appreciate it, just to see how it works, I need to figure it out, and get my hands building myself. You know my Mac Giver is a little bit sleepy these days Thanks |
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09-21-2011, 08:54 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: panama city
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i am working out the exact gromet length for my 3/16 brake line and i am close. eyballin and dremilin a. 1/8 steel squre tubing and 1/4 inckh bronze groms and washers .. kinked first one. and tryed another way and im gettin there. this is a gr8 threa  d
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09-21-2011, 10:02 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wayne county. PA
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yeah the coller tube around the bolt needs to be a bit under the size tube you are bending....3/8" brake line fits a 5/16" bolt real good....i cut my spacers right at 3/16" for 3/16" tube, 1/4" for 1/4" and 5/16" for that size as well....then file the end down to just under each size tube, so when i snug the bolt on the tube it holds it in place nice and tight for a no kink tight bend ....i'll get video in a day or 2.......bob.... |
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09-22-2011, 07:25 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: middle,tn
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hey bob since i have built your first version bender i have to build v2..but my question is..on the stud that has the spacer and nut ..is that just a long bolt with the top part not having threads..so is the spot where the nut is where the threads run out..the end of the thread...and what did you use for a spacer on that 5/16 bolt..is that 3/8 tube or what..now im bending 1/4 more than 3/16 but ive found that me using fender washers on the v1 has been working better for me with 1/4 ..please help bob and keep up your great inginuity..lol | |
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09-22-2011, 08:36 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wayne county. PA
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yeah it's just a longer bolt that has the un threaded shank with the hex head removed....also yes it's 3/8" tube/brake line on the bolt as i posted in my last reply ....last night i used a 7" sanding flap disc to kinda polish the work surface so the brakeline slides a bit better across it .........bob.... |
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11-10-2011, 09:08 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Wakonda
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Thanks for sharing , it's hard to believe it works so good, I know I'll be building one soon as I've always had problems with tubing kinking. Thanks again |
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