Has anyone used this electric bead roller from eastwood. Seems like a really cool tool. Is it any good as far as quality goes?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMB3x6bHffg

Regards,
Justin

 

probably leaps and bounds above the harbor freight one.

what about a BeadForm brand? http://www.beadform.com/ Its what i have always used, that is until some one stole the damn thing right after having it upgraded...

 

why do all of these say .050" material, what about .065 wall SS, or .065 alumium .083 aluminum, would it just not do it. Who uses .050 wall thickness?

 

Because most of the bead rollers on the market are not designed to do tubing, they're designed to do sheet metal like in the video. For tubing, the bead form is a much better option in my opinion. It's hard to roll a straight bead on tubing with a bead roller like in the video. My bead form will do 16ga stainless easily.

 

tony which beadform do you have?

 

As tony said, for tubing you want this:



Eastwood sells those as well.

 

We use the Bead Form/Kramer as well
Very nice piece

 

right there are a bunch of differnet models. one is for small id tubing and there are more than one for larger 2+" tubing.

 

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I have the Bead Form II HD

http://www.vansantent.com/bead_tool.htm

 

thanks tony.

 

we have the bead form and the eastman bead
roller ..Both are good for there own purpose
tonys right beadform works best for pipe

 

The expander one's are really nice, but there kinda pricey. Might be worth it if you bead tube all day though.