tube bender

Is there any place local to buy a tube bender???

this isnt local but there is a vendor on pirate4x4 that is selling air over hydraulic tube benders that use jd2 or protools dies for 600 bucks. Pretty good deal there is also one running good deals on the jd2 model 3 manual. Just look in the vendor section:awesomework:

I dont post very often but the tubing bender I just got finished building from Gottrikes.com. You can buy the plans and even the machined parts for 300. the stick of 2X2X.25 cost me about 80. It is a air over hydraulic bender and bends like 2deg per second. It uses pro-tools 105 dies. it sits on its own so no stand and bends really well. The guy who designed it is working on a degree marking system for it but I just bought a magnetic digital angle finder and ust it. I will never buy the degree part. U have to have a welder or have it welded together I used a chop saw and drill press and it was easy in a evening I was done minus finish welding. Take a look and see if you are interested in it.

not local but I would buy from Speedway Motors. Theirs is like the one that Toycrusher is refering to. Their price is 399.00 and that includes 1 set of dies and they pay the shipping. Not a bad deal in my book...

I've got one in the for sale section. Only used once! CHeck it out

I just picked this one up yesterday,The guy was onlt asking $180.00 for it.I traded him an rc rock crawler for it.

1.5"x120* 5" radius.Its built after the "blind chicken racing" design.

works good but hand pumping that jack handle will flat wear ya out or make ya buff.Im converting it to air/hydraulic tonight so I can just push a button.


Ive been looking for a while I was just in the right place at the right time.I prefer to call it good karma.:awesomework:

now I got to figure out how to bend tube properly,been reading the tube bending for dummies thread.:redneck:

anyone heard how well the baleigh manual bender works?

I have heard nothing but really good things about everything that Baleigh sells. If you got the $$ do it.

ClarkW said:

I have heard nothing but really good things about everything that Baleigh sells. If you got the $$ do it.

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X2 I have a jd2 model 3 converted to hydraulic and a pile of dies and I am also eyeballin ballieghs benders. They look to be top notch:awesomework:

From what I have read the Baleigh sounds sick. You can do a full 180 degrees without moving a pin. It looks really beefy, and like stated above most everything Baleigh sells I have heard good things about. Also it has three speed increments for bending the tube. Here is a link to some info I was reading from Pirate: http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=771997 Hope this helps.

pos97TJ said:

X2 I have a jd2 model 3 converted to hydraulic and a pile of dies and I am also eyeballin ballieghs benders. They look to be top notch:awesomework:

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yea I have a jd2 sitting in the shop & dont even want to do the work of drilling to the floor.( cause I just dont like it at all) I figured if I dumped a bunch of cash on dies for the jd2 Id kick myself later for not getting the one I wanted. Im just gonna get the baleigh and a few dies. I will let u guys know how I like it. & thanks for all the help

one of my friends told me if I was getting rid of it to call him. I will see if he still wants it first. I will let ya know but it will be monday b4 I know too.

I think the vertical design is nice. thats what i like better about the lowbuck. If u call them they could prob make that bender work w pro tools dies. thats where all the money goes in benders those dies are rediculous expensive. check out the bend tek its like 300 with a die all it does is 1 1/2 & 1 3/4 though

k2blazen said:

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Had to sell some stuff I didn't want too plus the wifes christmas present from her .If you were spending $800 on a bender which route would u go?debating

http://cgi.ebay.com/PRO32-AIR-HYDRA...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca88f6fa6

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You are in the doghouse FOR SURE, huh!!!

fedex came today

hell yeah so assembled it took about an hr it came sooner then I expected bend tek pro came also ,I hated asking people to use there **** hopefully I can make some $$ with it, Thanks to my wife she's the **** couldn't ask for more :cheer:

k2blazen said:

hell yeah so assembled it took about an hr it came sooner then I expected bend tek pro came also ,I hated asking people to use there **** hopefully I can make some $$ with it, Thanks to my wife she's the **** couldn't ask for more :cheer:

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Maybe a better camera.:redneck:

Just got a new one for christmas

TrashJeeper said:

Maybe a better camera.:redneck:

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I cant touch it though with my greasy fingers....

well now its time to build a buggy .... its time to shine mike ... i know you got it in ya just do it ......

What size compressor are you using to run the ram? Does the ram take a lot of air to push?

skinny_pedal said:

What size compressor are you using to run the ram? Does the ram take a lot of air to push?

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the big huskey at home depot, regulator at 90 psi I just leave in there because thats what the plasma cutter runs at,seems to work fine.

I was wondering if they is a special type of oil/fluid requirements,hydraulic oil
or neumatic oil that the ram uses?