I NEED TUBING BENDER HELP!!!

[Kirmit77]

what is a good cheaper tubing bender out there that bends tighter turns

[Bugpac]

Jd square, from trick tools.com they arent cheap but are rather inexpensive compared to what else is out there...

[jp350]

JD2 is good. But their customer service leaves something to be desired. Same with trick tools. When I bought my bender JD2 took quite a while to get it too me. When I bought my 1.25" die they sent me a 1.5" die marked 1.25"". Because I ordered through trick tools I called them about the problem. They assured me they would take care of it. Two weeks later I call & they tell me sorry "looks like we dropped the ball" .........."we'll get it right out to you". Im still waiting. This sucks if you are building your own buggy. Its unacceptable when you have customers wanting product.

[yoshi]

I'm designing a tube bender that i'm gonna sell as a kit which includes the plasma cut parts needed and instructions to complete the bender with the rest of the materials you get. *I got the prototype parts from the plasma cutter a few days ago and will build the first one to replace my current builder. *I figured since I was prototyping all the parts and would have them in the computer, might as well sell them to people. *It will be a decent priced kit, cpable of a 120 degree bend which will accept different size dies, but I don't know how soon your needing a bender, and i'm still designing this one. *My first one has worked for almost 4 years and looks like ass, so I basically redesigned it to look better with some cool plasma cut parts....

[rickashay]

Originally Posted by yoshi\";p=\&quot

I'm designing a tube bender that i'm gonna sell as a kit which includes the plasma cut parts needed and instructions to complete the bender with the rest of the materials you get. *I got the prototype parts from the plasma cutter a few days ago and will build the first one to replace my current builder. *I figured since I was prototyping all the parts and would have them in the computer, might as well sell them to people. *It will be a decent priced kit, cpable of a 120 degree bend which will accept different size dies, but I don't know how soon your needing a bender, and i'm still designing this one. *My first one has worked for almost 4 years and looks like w00ter, so I basically redesigned it to look better with some cool plasma cut parts....

I would be interested in that for sure! I was actually just about to get a JD2 bender just because Im tired of taking tubing into work or asking to use my neighbors JD2. It sounds like a kit would be the way to go, fairly inexpensive, and I get to put it together! Keep us posted! Would the kit come with a degree wheel, options for a stand, etc..??

I didnt mean to hijack the thread, sorry. The JD2 is a very good bender, I think pro tools makes a copy of it for a little less $$ and looks to be a good quality but Ive never seen or used one. I use a Haussefeld hyd. bender at work but its doesnt fall into the cheap catagorie.

[yoshi]

Originally Posted by rickashay\";p=\&quot

I would be interested in that for sure! I was actually just about to get a JD2 bender just because Im tired of taking tubing into work or asking to use my neighbors JD2. It sounds like a kit would be the way to go, fairly inexpensive, and I get to put it together! Keep us posted! Would the kit come with a degree wheel, options for a stand, etc..??

I didnt mean to hijack the thread, sorry. The JD2 is a very good bender, I think pro tools makes a copy of it for a little less $$ and looks to be a good quality but Ive never seen or used one. I use a Haussefeld hyd. bender at work but its doesnt fall into the cheap catagorie.

I built my first bender almost 4 years ago when to build my first rail. *I had no metal experience, and just slapped my bender together in a few days with scrap I had sitting around. *The bender has worked flawless for the entire time i've had it, and it gets uses A LOT every day. *So, I am about to start building a rail outta 1.5" tubing, and bought the dies for it, and figured why not build a new bender. *The old one works fine, and you can use all the dies in the same fixture, it just looks like ass, lol. *So I designed the new bender and paid out quite a bit of money to get the first batch of stuff prototyped, and figured, since I already have the stuff in the computer at the plasma cutter, why not sell the parts and the plans to other people.

I am building this bender for myself, and will take *a lot of pics and make very detailed notes with color digital pictures to go with the plans. *My plans will be for a full stand up model like my current setup, and will be setup for an air over hydraulic which is amazingly fast to use. *You could prob. use a bottle jack in there just fine, but I just bought a second air over hydraulic jack from harbor freight and just like 4 years ago, it is only $69.95 and works great.

I don't use a degree wheel, I use a digital protractor on the top of the unit, but you can use a cheaper one (pictured to the left) only the one I have is 2 degrees off, so get a good one if you don't wanna fork out the $100.00 for a digital one.

To keep shipping down, I will just sell the plasma cut parts to people and the plans, I will also throw in a degree setup I designed to attach to the back of the tube in the bender. *You stick an angle finder on it and you can figure out how far to turn the tube left or right for tubes with multiple bends. *I use this on about 4 tubes on my rail and they all come out the exact same. *It also works good if your making a bend on both sides of the tube and want to make sure they are on the same plane. *Just set the degree clamp in the middle of the tube, get it level, bend the first side, flip it, rotate the tube until it's level again, then bend.

After you get the kit, you buy your own bottle jack, order the dies from pro tools, and get some 2x2 square tubing and the plans will tell you how long to cut everything,and where they go in the plans.

Here are some pics of the first one, I will be building my bender wit these parts, but will make a couple minor changes to the next batch. *I also have some gusseting and cross plates coming from the plasma cutter, I just design it as I go and then measure stuff to order other parts.

I set the top parts against a full size battery to give an idea of the size.......

[yoshi]

Originally Posted by yoshi\";p=\&quot

I'm designing a tube bender that i'm gonna sell as a kit which includes the plasma cut parts needed and instructions to complete the bender with the rest of the materials you get. *I got the prototype parts from the plasma cutter a few days ago and will build the first one to replace my current bender. *I figured since I was prototyping all the parts and would have them in the computer, might as well sell them to people. *It will be a decent priced kit, capable of a 120 degree bend which will accept different size dies, but I don't know how soon your needing a bender, and i'm still designing this one. *My first one has worked for almost 4 years and looks like w00ter, so I basically redesigned it to look better with some cool plasma cut parts....

[yoshi]

what the hell, I thought I was editing my post for a couple misspellings, instead it quoted me and the edit button is gone for all my replies?