HF Pipe Kinker Tech, mods, alternate uses and tooling

[TBItoy]

From this bombed sale thread http://www.hardlinecrawlers.com/forums/index.php?topic=38047.0;topicseen

What do you DO with your super awesome "My First Bender"

 

[lowbudgetjunk]

Fake sell it on HL until an OG shows its true value

Hell, add to it the uses of a freaking highlift. I have inappropriately used them bitches to get a lot done

 

[TBItoy]

Fake sell it on HL until an OG shows its true value

Hell, add to it the uses of a freaking highlift. I have inappropriately used them hitches to get a lot done

**** when I drug it out to take pictures, that was the first time I'd touched it in 7 years, and then it was just because I moved...

I bought mine in highschool and built my first rig with it though. Still running the main part of the cage on my current rig

 

[tommy450r]

I bought mine when I was in high school to build a cage on a Nissan truck out of black pipe from lowes an never done anything with it but bend some windshield bars for a jeep! Now I'm gonna go drag it out of the cob webs an try to straighten my links.

 

[fordcontraption01]

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[onepieceatatime]

Re:

That would be handy to carry in the truck to straighten **** out.

 

[fordcontraption01]

That would be handy to carry in the truck to straighten **** out.

you could weld a piece of 2"x2" to it and put it in your receiver hitch to hold it also

 

[tommy450r]

Someone said they made a metal brake out of one I'd like to see some pics.

 

[xjtony]

I don't know about all this tech, but I threw mine at an annoying cat one time. Did a real good job of stray cat eradication.

 

[mac5005]

This picture shows it setup as a brake. This was the first lower die. The one I have now is same length as clearance between the vertical brackets of the bender frame. This was I can bend as wide as I can fit in the bender. The small legs are to keep the lower die centered in the frame, this is also why the c clamp is on the top. That keeps the top die stationary to the frame.

I flip the top die over, remove the angle iron from the bottom and this gives me a flat surface to dimple with.

The picture with the dimple dies was long before I added the angle iron.




Sorry for the for sale thread hijack. I know I'm a guilty party on that one.

 

[mac5005]

A friend and I split the cost of $189 in high school. We "built" several kinked bumpers and rock sliders with it. I've used it more to straighten bend things and as a press than as a pipe bender.

If you cut a 2" piece of pipe, and split it in half into semicircles, place between the pipe you want to bend and the "followers", it keeps from denting the pipe as bad.

 

[cumminsontherocks]

Ive had mine forever and honestly use it all the time to straighten link bars. Used it today actually.

 

[rock climber]

Good tip on fixing bent links. Worked like a charm...

 

[pachary]

Ive had mine forever and honestly use it all the time to straighten link bars. Used it today actually.

+1

 

[orv design and fab]

Now I have a use for my old hf linker. Right on. Thanks for the inspiration. This baby's coming out of the closet

 

[jeepzuk]

Used my kinker to set the camber on one of my trailer axles