UncleFista
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| posted on 18/8/08 at 09:46 PM |
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Anyone with a pipe/tube bender in the Bradford/Leeds area ? :)
We tried to bend the top rear tube for our back-end rebuild of our "book" chassis and TBH we're not overly impressed with how it
turned out 
It's usable, but a bit flat, sooooo, does anyone have a bender that could do 90 degree bends with a 3" radius on some 19mm, 1.6mm tube
please ?
I don't want to take the bender away with me, I can bring my own steel 
Cheers, Tony
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 18/8/08 at 10:44 PM |
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I watched an interesting youtube video a few months ago, the guy was suffering with tubes being crushed, becuase he was just using a cheap hydraylic
pipe bender (like you get in machine mart for £100ish) so he taped up the end of the tube with gafer tape, filled it with sand and then water, taped
up the other end and bent the tube at +90 degrees no problem.
He was building a sand rail or something similar - worked a treat.
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 18/8/08 at 10:46 PM |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWT3N3m4bE4
Enjoy.
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AndyGT
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| posted on 18/8/08 at 10:46 PM |
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I was just going to ask if anyone has tried this rollbar bending lark by preheating the tube(s) with oxy-acetylene?
nothing is impossible
everything is possible
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splitrivet
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| posted on 18/8/08 at 11:07 PM |
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Ask a local electrical contractor to bend it for you the Clarke bender is only good for heavy wall tube unless you fill it with sand and cap the ends.
Cheers,
Bob
I used to be a Werewolf but I'm alright nowwoooooooooooooo
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UncleFista
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| posted on 19/8/08 at 09:26 AM |
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I've seen the sand bending technique before, it's impressive. But I'd need to borrow a pipe bender and some sand.
Whereas, if I just bend it in a bender, I'd only need to borrow the bender itself
So no-one has one in the local area then ?
Bugger ;(
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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stevebubs
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| posted on 19/8/08 at 12:53 PM |
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Why not give MK a ring???
Martin Keenan: Telephone numbers: Home: 01709 815740 Mobile:07956397404
E-Mail: martin@keenan7060.freeserve.co.uk
Address: 2, Addison Road, Maltby, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S66 8DG
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UncleFista
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| posted on 19/8/08 at 08:48 PM |
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Thanks all, it's hopefully sorted now. My brother had a wander around an industrial estate near his home and found a lock-up with a bloke
rebuilding a Pell Genesis.
By all accounts a friendly chap who said to just leave the tube with him and he'd bend it.
I can't get over how many genuinely frindly and helpful people I've met since starting building the car
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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