Readers Benders

I am going to be publishing all the great work from those of you that create your own benders and send in pics. There are tons of people out there that surf the web for ideas, just so they can get an idea where to start, including myself (INSAYN). With this new found ideas, users are able to open up their minds, tool boxes and garages to create their own projects. I like to see people build their own tools. It gives them personal satisfaction, and something to share with the rest of us.

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Here is Randy Cain's bender. He and I have bounce a couple of e-mails off each other, and this is what he came up with. He went a step further on his design than I did, and installed the removable horizontal bar at top that I eluded to for upgrades. Great Job Randy!

Here is his e-mail that came with the bender pics::

"Here are some photos of the bender I made with the help of your plans. I have some others that I took during construction. Those I will have to scan into my computer and send them later (35mm). I love my digital camera. Nothing like instant photos. I used the idea we talked about with the upper pivot point having a bar that could be repositioned. The two bars were just 1 1/4" steel bar that I turned down in my lathe. They have a step in them so they can't push all the way through. Not even a hint of bending. I can't believe how easy this thing bends tubing. Feel free to post the photos on your web site. You can post my email if you want, that way if anyone has questions they can ask me.

Again thanks a lot for your time and help.

Randy Cain. "
updp31@adelphia.net

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Here is yet another fine example of a homemade bender sent in by Mark Patton. Looks like it is bending up some nice curves. Also note the trick tube notcher on the lathe. He says he has prints if anyone is interested.

The bottle jack is a 12.5 ton from Jet tools. With this jack it bends 1.25"x.120 wall steel tube with one hand on a 10" handle. I can get 120 deg. bends if the part clears the top of the bender. I used this jack because the base is only 4-1/8" wide so my springs are on the inside. The die I made on a CNC Lathe at my shop. It started as a 9"x 2" billet of 1018 crs. I think I could make 2 dies out of one piece. If anyone needs one made let me know, we could work somthing out. The follow die at the bottom I used a ball end mill with a few passes. The project took about 20 hours total but I had no prints then. so if I made it again I would say 10 to 15 hours. Some of us have more time than money 8-) By the way I finished the prints Wednesday nite. There are 9 prints in all, also a materials list with venders names and part numbers for the bearings, bolts, nuts, jack and such. I'm thinking $20.00 American for the set let me know what you think. This is the 2nd one I have made. The first one was ripped of 12 years ago. Before I had a cad program so when I built this one I had to go from memory.

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