- 1. [Shop-talk] tubing bender dies (score: 1)
- Author: Brad Kahler <bkahler1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 08:00:46 -0400
- I was given one of these tubing benders from Harbor Freight. By design it bends flat stock rather well. http://www.harborfreight.com/compact-bender-38470.html I now have a need to bend some 5/8" diam
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- 2. Re: [Shop-talk] tubing bender dies (score: 1)
- Author: John Innis <jdinnis@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 08:32:21 -0500
- --==2926678078335690867== --001a1147ce382d321705331de3ca Not sure about materials, but you don't need to shape your cutting tool, IF you are patient and careful. You can use a thin cutting tool and r
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- 3. Re: [Shop-talk] tubing bender dies (score: 1)
- Author: Brad Kahler <bkahler1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 10:53:37 -0400
- John, That's an interesting approach to cutting the appropriate groove for the dies. For this particular project I think just having several points of contact around the circumference where the pipe
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- 4. Re: [Shop-talk] tubing bender dies (score: 1)
- Author: Dave <dave1massey@cs.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 16:23:35 -0400
- --==4758948697391696968== boundary="--=_Part_208039_1183205162.1463603015229" --=_Part_208039_1183205162.1463603015229 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Why not just buy some rope pulleys of the right
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- 5. Re: [Shop-talk] tubing bender dies (score: 1)
- Author: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 16:26:56 -0400 (EDT)
- Brad, For those minimal requirements, it seems like you'd be time way ahead making a simple bender from scratch, if you have some scrap metal handy. Here's the one I made a few years ago... <http://p
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- 6. Re: [Shop-talk] tubing bender dies (score: 1)
- Author: Brad Kahler <bkahler1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 16:30:49 -0400
- Dave, That's not a bad idea, unfortunately I just checked and all of the pulleys designed for 5/8" rope are pretty darn expensive and I would need at least two of them :( For the moment John's idea o
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- 7. Re: [Shop-talk] tubing bender dies (score: 1)
- Author: Dave <dave1massey@cs.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 17:56:33 -0400
- --==6464053527808050379== boundary="--=_Part_205675_6493308.1463608593768" --=_Part_205675_6493308.1463608593768 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit They did have a cast iron one (3165T43) that was only
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- 8. Re: [Shop-talk] tubing bender dies (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Cavanaugh <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 20:01:21 -0700
- I think I would make the dies out of maple or oak on my wood lathe, but I'm primarily a wood guy. You can turn wood on a metal lathe (but it's messy) and you could just grind a quickie tool with the
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- 9. Re: [Shop-talk] tubing bender dies (score: 1)
- Author: David Scheidt <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 11:59:30 -0500
- The cheapest and easiest approach is surely to have someone with a suitable tubing bender bend it for you. 5/8 is used for some exhaust stuff, a good custom muffler place might have a die. Second sim
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