gazza808
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Registered: 30th Jun 08
Location: Peterborough
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I've got a fair amount of tube to bend soon,
From 1 inch up to 2inch,
At the moment I'm looking at the sealey ones that seem to be flooded on ebay,
It'll only be used this time then I'll probably stick it back on there,
But I'm a bit worried on the results they might give? So has any one got experience of using one building a cage etc?
Tried tool hire places round here but they all sell the same style with the two pins and the die on the ram,
Any other suggestions welcome
Cheers
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harvey_1066
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Registered: 9th May 10
Location: Ludlow Shropshire
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we'v got one of those hydraulic pipe benders like the ones on ebay, and they're good benders, iv made my whole off road cage with it no problem and so has my mate when he made a scaffold tube cage for his, the one we'v got hasnt broke / cracked or leaked or anything.
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gazza808
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Ahh that's quite impressive!
Did you find it squashed/deformed the bend much?
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harvey_1066
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well no, the pipe stayed round BUT where the round rollers sit on the tube we found it squashed it slightly there from the force kinda put a flat spot on it, BUT we also found that if you got a piece of pipe cut it in half and placed it around the rollers to increase the surface area sort of it, it didnt put the indents in the tubes then. but yea it bend this no problem the one we'v got.
[Edited on 06-06-2012 by harvey_1066]
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gazza808
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Ah, awesome, I'll give it a punt then, cheers buddy,
I'll make up some rollers to replace the pins.
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
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ive got one and tried it for exhaust tube and just squashed it.
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gazza808
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Yeeeah exhaust pipe is too thin wall for it, need's to be 2.5mm wall at least.
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BeArDy
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My advice and I have done alot of pipe bending if your using the cheap pressure type machines then weld the ends up and fill it with sand. Once bent empty sand.
With the cheap benders they tend to collapse the pipe the sand stops this.
Roll cage tube is CDS tubing
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