any one have experience with a tubing bender?

[fox1]

Wanting to buy a tubing bender for various little projects I get into. Looking at the one made by Rogue fabrication, seems legit. I'm wanting to bend round as well as square tubing. Any advice on what is a good brand ?

[Bowtech32]

Tagged, looking myself but wanting to find a good deal.

[Gummi Bear]

any one have experience with a tubing bender?

Quality stuff, found here:

http://www.trick-tools.com/Tube_Pipe_Bending_125

Manual, hydraulic and programmable benders are on the market.

I've used a ProTools quite a bit, a Shark a little bit.


A word of advice: do not let price be your primary decision when shopping for a tool like this. Also, don't just look at the cost of the tool alone, figure what dies you will want to go along with it, and find a grand total.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately - Thoreau

[txwhitetail]

Not much to those manual units. About any of the decent brands are good. A lot of guys have a lot of luck with the harbor freight model as well.

The dies are what will break you. Way overpriced.

[fox1]

Quality stuff, found here:

http://www.trick-tools.com/Tube_Pipe_Bending_125

Manual, hydraulic and programmable benders are on the market.

I've used a ProTools quite a bit, a Shark a little bit.


A word of advice: do not let price be your primary decision when shopping for a tool like this. Also, don't just look at the cost of the tool alone, figure what dies you will want to go along with it, and find a grand total.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately - Thoreau

I checked out the website, looked good but those dies are pricy

[Gummi Bear]

Dies and tooling will often ad up to more than the cost of a machine or tool.

I have a buddy that owns a machine shop. He has twice as much money tied up in tooling than his first CNC machine.

Woodward Fab stuff is now available at Northern Tool. It is pretty reasonable price: http://northerntool.com/products?q=Woodward+Fab


I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately - Thoreau

[CWendling]

There is also a difference between a pipe bender and a tubing bender

[Hix]

JD squared
Easy to use affordable and will last for ever.
The model 32 can be used manual or you can add hydraulics. The model 3 is the cheaper original version that isn't as heavy and doesn't accept hydraulic.

https://www.jd2.com/p-67-model-32-bender-manual.aspx

[lovemylegacy]

Yes I have experience with a tubing bender...all of it bad

[Goldeneagle]

Check out Joey's Frankenford thread in the DIY section. He bought one and done some durn fine work with it.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Someone posted that a "tubing bender" is different from a "pipe" bender... BIG difference... If indeed you want to bend thin wall tubing and especially both round AND square, a "good" one that won't crimp/collapse your tubing will cost you some money in tooling... A "pipe" bender is primarily intended for heavy wall material or even solid. The dies are more heavy duty than tubing bender tooling. If you bend heavy wall stuff on your tubing bender tooling, there is a very good chance you will damage/destroy your tooling...

Not sure what your real applications are, but that Pro-tools hydraulic bender is a good one that you can get tooling for both pipe and tubing, even square tubing. Having said that, you will be dropping some serious change if you really need to meet all those applications...

[fox1]

Check out Joey's Frankenford thread in the DIY section. He bought one and done some durn fine work with it.

Thanks brother, got so wrapped up in that build I forgot what I was doing.

[fox1]

Someone posted that a "tubing bender" is different from a "pipe" bender... BIG difference... If indeed you want to bend thin wall tubing and especially both round AND square, a "good" one that won't crimp/collapse your tubing will cost you some money in tooling... A "pipe" bender is primarily intended for heavy wall material or even solid. The dies are more heavy duty than tubing bender tooling. If you bend heavy wall stuff on your tubing bender tooling, there is a very good chance you will damage/destroy your tooling...

Not sure what your real applications are, but that Pro-tools hydraulic bender is a good one that you can get tooling for both pipe and tubing, even square tubing. Having said that, you will be dropping some serious change if you really need to meet all those applications...

Don't need to bend any pipe, just looking to be able to bend round and square tubing. I'm lucky in that Webco has a yard across from my office that I can buy unlimited amounts of tubing from and I get wholesale pricing.