Very good video. I'm looking to get a tube bender to make a luggage rack for a motorcycle, I would be using 19 mm steel tubing. Less than 2mm wall thickness. I dont know how well it would go with that or if it would flattern off the bends a little. Anyway thanks for the video. Graham, Queensland, Ausi...
Vevor is fairly good quality. The prices are definitely cheaper than other similar tools. You need to be an educated consumer before you purchase. I purchased a few items and have been happy overall. I’m amazed just how many products they make. Heck I even have a 8500 GPH pump of theirs in my Koi pond lol. I think tube bending is always a problem for a hobby shop or just someone who’s not going to do it enough to get professional bender. I once had a nice hydraulic one but the dies are expensive and after I retired my motorcycle shop I simply didn’t need it. I have one like yours and it’s decent on thin wall tubing only. You REALLY need it bolted down solid to the floor and sometimes even a longer lever handle than what they supply when you’re bending larger diameters. If you need perfect bends you must have a DOM , drawn over mandrel. And they are really expensive.However for the most part this is worth the money. Good video 👍🏼
Attach a spacer to the swing arm that rides on the curved portion of the base to help keep the arm level with the base. If that make sense. That looks like a northfield bandsaw? NICE!
Thanks for the idea. I think a spacer will help take some of the wobbly slop out like you are saying. Yea, thats a Northfield I love it... Probably needs new tires soon, but it sure is fun to use. I had a Grizzly saw before that I really liked, but I got an unacceptable amount of frame deflection when trying to resaw that caused the blade to drift. SO I started looking around, and stumbled onto this one. I ended up buying it from a guy that was going out of woodworking business (retiring). He gave me a pretty good deal on it because he was getting out of his lease and just needed it out. Like I said it turns out that it's a pretty good saw, and built like a tank. I may have another video in the can about moving it. I had to take it apart completely in my drive way so I could push it through the bay door... That part of the deal was not amusing at the time.. lol. Cheers
I may bore out that hole and make a bronze shoulder bushing to press in there. I think if I bore the bushing so that it's a machinist fit I can get most of the slop out. Obviously putting that much time into making right kind of diminishes the cost factor, but like they say, you get what you pay for....
Have one of these tools, is kind of irritating for me to see those long pinch marks on. Still looking for ways to get rid of those marks... It looks bad for making a hander bar
Very good video. I'm looking to get a tube bender to make a luggage rack for a motorcycle, I would be using 19 mm steel tubing. Less than 2mm wall thickness. I dont know how well it would go with that or if it would flattern off the bends a little. Anyway thanks for the video. Graham, Queensland, Ausi...
Vevor is fairly good quality. The prices are definitely cheaper than other similar tools. You need to be an educated consumer before you purchase. I purchased a few items and have been happy overall. I’m amazed just how many products they make. Heck I even have a 8500 GPH pump of theirs in my Koi pond lol. I think tube bending is always a problem for a hobby shop or just someone who’s not going to do it enough to get professional bender. I once had a nice hydraulic one but the dies are expensive and after I retired my motorcycle shop I simply didn’t need it. I have one like yours and it’s decent on thin wall tubing only. You REALLY need it bolted down solid to the floor and sometimes even a longer lever handle than what they supply when you’re bending larger diameters. If you need perfect bends you must have a DOM , drawn over mandrel. And they are really expensive.However for the most part this is worth the money. Good video 👍🏼
great comments. Thanks
Attach a spacer to the swing arm that rides on the curved portion of the base to help keep the arm level with the base. If that make sense. That looks like a northfield bandsaw? NICE!
Thanks for the idea. I think a spacer will help take some of the wobbly slop out like you are saying. Yea, thats a Northfield I love it... Probably needs new tires soon, but it sure is fun to use. I had a Grizzly saw before that I really liked, but I got an unacceptable amount of frame deflection when trying to resaw that caused the blade to drift. SO I started looking around, and stumbled onto this one. I ended up buying it from a guy that was going out of woodworking business (retiring). He gave me a pretty good deal on it because he was getting out of his lease and just needed it out. Like I said it turns out that it's a pretty good saw, and built like a tank. I may have another video in the can about moving it. I had to take it apart completely in my drive way so I could push it through the bay door... That part of the deal was not amusing at the time.. lol. Cheers
I may bore out that hole and make a bronze shoulder bushing to press in there. I think if I bore the bushing so that it's a machinist fit I can get most of the slop out. Obviously putting that much time into making right kind of diminishes the cost factor, but like they say, you get what you pay for....
Have one of these tools, is kind of irritating for me to see those long pinch marks on. Still looking for ways to get rid of those marks... It looks bad for making a hander bar
You can use HVAC copper bender hilmor
Large washer under the mandrel pin might level the wheels.
the small die self-centres