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RE: Mandrel Bent Tubing

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Subject: RE: Mandrel Bent Tubing
From: "Larry Hoy" <list@marketvalue.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:14:32 -0600
Okay Mark, it sounds like you have used the Model 3.  My question is
this.  The Model three is not hydraulic, my club requires a main hoop
tubing size of 1.75 dia x .120" wall thickness.  Can that size tubing be
bent "by hand" with the Model 3?

Larry Hoy


> The Model 3 bender bends by pulling the tubing around the die
> and has dies that are the correct size.  Good bends with this 
> are a complete no brainer (now, figuring out where you want 
> the bends is sometimes a different story... :-)
> 
> Here's another bender for the DIY racecar person...
> 
> http://www.lowbucktools.com/hydbender.html
>
> I've never used one of these however.
>
> Mark

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