liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 18/5/08 at 08:15 PM |
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Protool Bender
I'm feeling really crap today after my 3rd chemo, but I'm tired of sitting in the house feeling sick so i went out to shed to feel sick
instead. Put some tools away and decided to write a little about my new toy.
I posted a while back about ordering a protool bender, well it arrived last week and I must say how impressed I am with it. The quality of
manufacturing and finishing is second to none and justifies its price tag imho. The die and form bar are very well made. The instructions are very
good and there is minimal assembly required. I was bending my first tube 20 mins after UPS delivered. It was effortless and felt like much bigger
tube would be no problem. Almost zero distortion of the tube also
 
bender1
 
bender2
 
bender3
 
bender4
 
bender5
[Edited on 18/5/08 by liam.mccaffrey]
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mr henderson
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| posted on 18/5/08 at 08:21 PM |
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Thanks for the pics and mini-review, Liam, very interesting and I for one will be looking forward to more.
I hadn't realised you were on chemo, I hope it goes well and produces a good outcome.
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NigeEss
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| posted on 18/5/08 at 08:44 PM |
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Looks a nice useful bit of kit.
Hope you make a good recovery.
ATB
Nige
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worX
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| posted on 19/5/08 at 08:59 AM |
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You mean you haven't bent up your entire roundtube chassis yet mate??? Lazy bar-steward 
All the best,
Steve
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Peteff
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| posted on 19/5/08 at 10:36 AM |
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What radius bends does it do Liam and can you buy the dies separate? I've not seen any over here that use similar dies or I would be making one
right away from the blind chicken plans.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 19/5/08 at 01:00 PM |
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at the moment i have a 0.75" diam tube on a 3.5" centre line radius. as the dies get bigger so do the CLR's. Plenty of dies
available though on the protool website.
FYI, I spoke to the protool guy when I ordered and he said they ship the dies set all over the world. They even give away a detailed set of plans
for my bender type which uses their dies.
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worX
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| posted on 19/5/08 at 01:07 PM |
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If anyone wants the Protool Bender Plans for the machine that Liam has you can dwnload them below.
Obviously the tooling you can buy from Protool.
Steve
Apparently the file size is too big. Anyone that wants the plans, U2U me with your email address and I will send them on!
[Edited on 19/5/08 by worX]
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Peteff
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| posted on 19/5/08 at 05:14 PM |
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Got them.
PDF here under the hand pump hydraulic bender section.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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