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rent a pipe bender? how much?
CraigJ - 4/1/08 at 10:18 PM

Does anyone know wot it costs to rent a pipe bender? wanting to do my exhaust, i can get the material through work but will need it bending, any ideas?

im in west yorks.


Mr Whippy - 4/1/08 at 10:21 PM

well apparently they don't work very well on thin tube as it just buckles and are only any good on cage stuff. But I've never given it a go as I just buy bends.


JoelP - 4/1/08 at 10:23 PM

i thought it was cheap benders that dont work well, the ones that just push a former into the side of a tube. Proper ones pull it round a former and work very well.


Mr Whippy - 4/1/08 at 10:26 PM

I did a linky for a very cheap bender a while ago, if you don't have a wood lathe - bolt the wood onto the rear axle an run the engine for a locost lathe

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=79667



[Edited on 4/1/08 by Mr Whippy]