05-02-2011, 08:22 PM | #1 |
No idea what I'm doing Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Underground, CO
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| My tubing bender
This is my version of the "bob1961 bender". I've been meaning to make one for quite awhile and found a few spare minutes to throw this together. I used a 3/8-16 bolt with a half inch spacer. The spacer was drilled out to 3/8" and is .190" long. I used a .250" diameter pin that is set at .575" from the centerline of the bolt...it could have been a bit closer, but works. This is with brakeline, but I plan to use a thicker walled 1010 steel tube. I had a slight bit of a kink in the first test piece...I might shorten the spacer just a tick to keep things tighter. I also want to throw a few smaller diameter bolts into this chunk of aluminum. Thanks to Bob for posting up his original idea |
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05-09-2011, 04:19 PM | #2 |
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I'm in. Thanks for the chance. No really. PM me a price. Thanks |
05-09-2011, 08:45 PM | #3 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wayne county. PA
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hey nice bender and thx fer da plug ....yeah you need to keep the washers tight on the tube....i tighten it down on the tube so it can't move and get those nice clean bends ........bob .... |
05-09-2011, 09:52 PM | #4 |
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Nice work, C*H*U*D! Thanks for finding the time to make a second one! I bent up some test pieces and this thing kicks ass. Now I just need to find some time to use it Last edited by toybuilder; 05-10-2011 at 07:59 AM. |
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05-10-2011, 09:05 AM | #6 |
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09-08-2011, 06:45 PM | #7 |
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I'm going to try to copy this. I really don't have threading capabilities, but thinking I could probably make it a thru bolt configuration with a nut on the other side.
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02-02-2012, 05:53 PM | #8 |
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cool |
02-12-2012, 01:04 PM | #9 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Tennessee
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What a great idea, simple yet effective.
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02-16-2012, 09:51 AM | #10 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Knee deep in a creek with a fish on the line
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might be a dumb question but are you using something as a lever to do the bending, or do you just arm strong it?
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02-16-2012, 11:25 AM | #11 |
No idea what I'm doing Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Underground, CO
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02-16-2012, 07:58 PM | #12 |
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02-22-2012, 06:01 PM | #13 |
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Very clever, I like it. Gonna have to do something like this and make it a permanent tool on the RC fabricating bench.
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02-24-2012, 11:02 PM | #14 |
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Just in time for my tuber. Will be looking for some aluminum when the sun rises haha
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02-25-2012, 09:28 AM | #15 |
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Do you think this tool would be strong enough to do slight bends on 3/16 Ti rod for custum upper links, instead of having them made from someone else ...
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