Hey Rick, good to see you again! Good purchase, reasonably priced, great video! Stay safe, neighbor, in our Texas heat! (Today I’m moving my camper van from ‘my’ regular mechanic to another via wrecker…then I’ll see how long it’s gonna sits ‘there’. UGH! 🙄 Video up later) ~Jim~
@@dzlfreek > Yup, you got that right. I ‘was’ going to make a video from picking up the van at Marco’s shop to Romero’s shop but after seeing the dead end street where my van was towed to I chose not to…looked worse than any super run-down ghetto [and, that’s putting it politely!]. Hundred feet past the shop was a junk yard and just before the shop a raggedy a** storage lot. If I was to ever to visit there after dark you can bet I’d be packing my 9mm as I was today! If I can find any pics of the ‘new’ shop I might make a video. Have a great weekend, Rick!
I want a bender too, but like you, I don't want to spend a lot. I'll probably wind up making my own so the trick is finding good available dies that aren't too expensive and then making a bender for them that can go past 180° in one shot, make one bend start close to where the last finished and index the tube rotationally and lengthwise so it's repeatable. I'll probably do a hydraulic power unit and micro switches to do a rotational stop so I can bend in one shot with predictable spring back. I know I'll spend more than that Affordable Bender and maybe more than that rogue but I've used hydraulic benders with power units that can't go 180° in one shot, the bends can't be close to each other, the tubes doesn't have good index points and the with the inconsistent stop point the spring back is hard to account for. I don't want to deal with that but I would like to produce bent tubes that look like they were made on a $$$$ CNC bender. I think I can do it but it's going to be different to do all that.
@@dzlfreek I did look at a few things several months ago but I try not to look because I'm scared... But I'm good at scrounging and recycling. Also the features I mention don't really need much more steel, just smart design...
Hey Rick, good to see you again! Good purchase, reasonably priced, great video! Stay safe, neighbor, in our Texas heat! (Today I’m moving my camper van from ‘my’ regular mechanic to another via wrecker…then I’ll see how long it’s gonna sits ‘there’. UGH! 🙄 Video up later) ~Jim~
good help is hard to find...and spendy
@@dzlfreek > Yup, you got that right. I ‘was’ going to make a video from picking up the van at Marco’s shop to Romero’s shop but after seeing the dead end street where my van was towed to I chose not to…looked worse than any super run-down ghetto [and, that’s putting it politely!]. Hundred feet past the shop was a junk yard and just before the shop a raggedy a** storage lot. If I was to ever to visit there after dark you can bet I’d be packing my 9mm as I was today! If I can find any pics of the ‘new’ shop I might make a video. Have a great weekend, Rick!
I want a bender too, but like you, I don't want to spend a lot.
I'll probably wind up making my own so the trick is finding good available dies that aren't too expensive and then making a bender for them that can go past 180° in one shot, make one bend start close to where the last finished and index the tube rotationally and lengthwise so it's repeatable. I'll probably do a hydraulic power unit and micro switches to do a rotational stop so I can bend in one shot with predictable spring back.
I know I'll spend more than that Affordable Bender and maybe more than that rogue but I've used hydraulic benders with power units that can't go 180° in one shot, the bends can't be close to each other, the tubes doesn't have good index points and the with the inconsistent stop point the spring back is hard to account for. I don't want to deal with that but I would like to produce bent tubes that look like they were made on a $$$$ CNC bender. I think I can do it but it's going to be different to do all that.
have you priced steel lately? make sure you're sitting when you do!
@@dzlfreek I did look at a few things several months ago but I try not to look because I'm scared...
But I'm good at scrounging and recycling. Also the features I mention don't really need much more steel, just smart design...
The website says it will bend up to 110 degrees if you slide the tube through and bend it a second time. Have you figured out how to do that? Thanks!
im having a hard time finding 1.25 tube! so I haven't been able to play with this thing too much
I got a taco bender one time that was affordable does that count?
if you're bending tacos, I recon
Looks like some fingers could get smashed with that thing
I like living dangerously