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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: ferretjuggler on June 09, 2014, 08:49:45 PM
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Anyone know anything about making a tube bender from an old car wheel hub and stub axle?
I need to bend 28x3 ERW tube though about 90º max.
I have a hydraulic centre push bender that will piss this, but apparently the quality of the bends isn't good enough :banghead:
Needs to be a pull around type and I don't have ££££ to throw at buying a professional one.
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It's the quality of the die wiper/follower and stuff that dictates the acceptability of the bend.
If it's any help I have a bender and can bend.....
1 3/4"
And 1 1/4" CDS.... Would need to van it up to you as cut to fit overlong pieces.
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Cheers. :098:
That's one option that could be made to work for me.
I've decided to have another crack at building hard tail frames.
I built one years ago just to prove a point.
It was rough as fuck, but the guy I built it for pressed on and built the bike anyway.
TBH I was quite chuffed with myself when I picked up my centre push bender for just £90
But I've been on a Chopper building site today and the advice is as follows-
"If you can't get a decent quality bender and make good quality bends, don't bother starting the job, the frame will look crap"
Probably true.
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The 'unseen' parts of my original tube fenders were not pretty.....
Due to the Mau Mart Crinklemeister pipe bender ........centre push hydraulic jack thing.....
Ok for solid though :icon_twisted:
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:hysterical:
Mine looks like the MM one but came off ebay for £50 less.
Probably worse.
There are only six bends in a basic hardtail frame.
The trouble is that the lower rails each have two bends and they are axially not in the same plane.
OK so I could use two lengths of pre-bent tube butted together maybe with a doubler inside.
I could probably make the join invisible too.
But I'd rather do it properly.
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Iom is the only bender I know! :icon_eek: