What are you using to bend tube?

[Brian5582]

I couldn’t find much on the subject other than a few random pictures. What are you using to bend tube be it homemade or bought. Been out of the hobby for about 10 years and bought an RR10 and now remember why I liked the hobby so much. Though my wallet doesn’t particularly like it. Thinking of building a tube buggy and have been looking at ways to bend the tube. I have to tools and tooling to make one. Just looking to see what others have done. Obviously bending solid round bar and bending tube without kinks are completely different animals. I do have a JD2 bender and 1.75” die but I think that might be a bit much for an RC car lol.

If there is already a thread on the subject feel free to point and laugh ��

 

[80Yota]

I am curious about this as well. A brake line tubing bender comes to mind but not sure if a manual bender like that would give you enough leverage to bend what your looking to bend or not.....

It would seem many people build their own as well with some bolts and a wrench of some sort for leverage but I have not investigated this avenue yet

 

[Brian5582]

Well I have found a few, one really good one on page 10 that I might try to replicate. I am not very computer savvy but the search function doesn’t work well for me.

 

[MAC FAB]

Brake line/refrigeration line bender is great, I have both metal and plastic, prefer the plastic one, slides easier I guess. Haven't tried 1/4" solid in steel, but does 1/4" aluminum and everything else from 1/4" .060 wall to 3/16" round stock just fine, and gives you the scale sized radius of the JD2 you have, +/- 4-1/2". Slip roll, in the wire grooves, does radius roof lines and bumpers so its easy to do off axis stuff.

 

[Brap]

Most people use rod note tubing so you don necessarily need a real bender

 

[Brian5582]

I can see using rod for stuff like sliders but in my opinion doing a entire cage out of solid rod probably close to doubles the weight.

 

[grizzlyatoms]

Anyone got any cad files for tools/bender? I want to build a chassis as well and would be awesome to cut out some tools on the mill.

 

[Almighty Malach]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=415888398897049&id=360855947733628

OakenShield Productions makes a bad ass scale bender that works awesome.

 

[Brian5582]

Wow that bender is nice! I just made a simple one, will bend 3/16 and 1/4. Gets the job done but repeatability definitely takes a little work when trying to bend more than one tube exactly the same. Especially when there is more than one bend but I have quite a bit of experience bending pipe for electrical lines and tube roll cages on 1:1 vehicles.

 

[Cr00zah]

I use this for my 3/16" and 1/4" tube: https://imperial-tools.com/products...80-tube-bender-with-roto-lok-indexing-handle/ Works well.

 

[Brian5582]

I have a similar one and it does work good but for most of the stuff I do I want tighter bends

 

[Bigsteezy]

I bought the nw scale designs bender, got mine from amain but you can get them direct also. It’s really nice, marked in graduations and bends 2 3/16 rods or tubes at the same time for symmetry. Now for a welder!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[danieldzurisin]

I have a similar one and it does work good but for most of the stuff I do I want tighter bends

Upper right hand corner is what i used, i cut two slots in the die part, and used old glider bearings as the roller part. Diameter of the cut grooves were right at 3/4 inch. the max i think for bending 3/16. Ya i used a lathe but i think could be made by a drill and round file. i cut 2 grooves out so i could bend 2 peices at once. Works great and was only about 5 bucks to make. It makes really tight bends....

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[JacktheRipper]

I have a similar one and it does work good but for most of the stuff I do I want tighter bends

Tight bends, this on will do it .. notice the radius is not set, incremental bends allow tight tolerances.




Pep

 

[Voodoobrew]

https://www.instructables.com/id/DIWire-Bender/

Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk