Pipe benders
I want to buy a pipe bender for some rare pipe bending. Although if I
actually had one, I'd probably upgrade to extremely infrequently. Mostly inch and a quarter, inch and a half light stuff with mild bends. Handrail type stuff and if I want short radius stuff, I'd buy the component pieces. Would you buy the HF or El Cheapo units or spend a little more for a better one? Experiences, opinions, and caveats appreciated. Steve |
Pipe benders
SteveB wrote:
I want to buy a pipe bender for some rare pipe bending. Although if I actually had one, I'd probably upgrade to extremely infrequently. Mostly inch and a quarter, inch and a half light stuff with mild bends. Handrail type stuff and if I want short radius stuff, I'd buy the component pieces. Would you buy the HF or El Cheapo units or spend a little more for a better one? Experiences, opinions, and caveats appreciated. Steve Personally, I would start with the better of the HF units and then start modifying and upgrading it. |
Pipe benders
SteveB wrote:
I want to buy a pipe bender for some rare pipe bending. Although if I actually had one, I'd probably upgrade to extremely infrequently. Mostly inch and a quarter, inch and a half light stuff with mild bends. Handrail type stuff and if I want short radius stuff, I'd buy the component pieces. Would you buy the HF or El Cheapo units or spend a little more for a better one? Experiences, opinions, and caveats appreciated. The HF bender that lies down flat is a very usable machine. Here you can see some pictures of us making a very simple pipe handrail from 1-1/4": http://www.tinyisland.com/images/Ent...ing/Index.html I used the machine stock-standard except I took the die and very carefully measured it and painted a thin white line on it to indicate the centerline of the bend. I can now lay out a bend centerline on the pipe and line it up by eye easily within 1/16", probably much closer. BTW I paid $20 for my bender used. Lots of these show up used cheap on craigslist. Grant Erwin Kirkland, Washington -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
Pipe benders
"Grant Erwin" wrote in message .. . The HF bender that lies down flat is a very usable machine. Here you can see some pictures of us making a very simple pipe handrail from 1-1/4": http://www.tinyisland.com/images/Ent...ing/Index.html I used the machine stock-standard except I took the die and very carefully measured it and painted a thin white line on it to indicate the centerline of the bend. I can now lay out a bend centerline on the pipe and line it up by eye easily within 1/16", probably much closer. BTW I paid $20 for my bender used. Lots of these show up used cheap on craigslist. Grant Erwin pretty nice work grant. i got a jb2 bender and found it's a bitch to keep the bends in the same plane. looks like you did pretty good w/ that (especially with such a long run!) b.w. |
Pipe benders
William Wixon wrote:
"Grant Erwin" wrote in message .. . The HF bender that lies down flat is a very usable machine. Here you can see some pictures of us making a very simple pipe handrail from 1-1/4": http://www.tinyisland.com/images/Ent...ing/Index.html I used the machine stock-standard except I took the die and very carefully measured it and painted a thin white line on it to indicate the centerline of the bend. I can now lay out a bend centerline on the pipe and line it up by eye easily within 1/16", probably much closer. BTW I paid $20 for my bender used. Lots of these show up used cheap on craigslist. Grant Erwin pretty nice work grant. i got a jb2 bender and found it's a bitch to keep the bends in the same plane. looks like you did pretty good w/ that (especially with such a long run!) Thanks, Bill. I was able to keep the bends reasonably planar by shimming up the pipe so it was everywhere parallel to the floor. As I bent the pipe Karen would scoot over the shims. On other railing jobs when I've done two bends they didn't come out planar and so I had to cut the pipe in the middle and rotate one end and weld it back up. Even that isn't too hard. - GWE -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
Pipe benders
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http://www.vansantent.com/tube_bending_machines.htm I bought the model 3 manual, then added my own hydraulics to it. Very nice and best of all the die sets won't break the bank.. -- "Steamboat Ed" Haas : All the candidates Hacking the Trailing Edge! : are JERKS!! www.nmpproducts.com ---Decks a-wash in a sea of words--- |
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