One trick I've used for thin wall tubing is to fill the tube with sand before
you try to bend it. Tends to reduce the possibility of crushing the tube.
George Gorman
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At 09:13 PM 1/30/96 MST, you wrote:
> Can the pipe benders, like the ones in Harbor Freight's catalog,
>bend both thick pipe for roll bars and thinner pipe for headers?
> Kim
>
I don't know what the Harbor Freight benders look like but, I have a
Greenlee that I use for roll cages and it doesn't work too good on thinner
wall tubing it tends to crush it. The Greenlee uses the 2 part setup where
you have a straight and a curged shoe, the curved shoe does the actual
bending the straight one keeps the tubing round.
I usually just buy mandrel bent tubing for headers and exhausts.
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