just wondering what benders everyone is using. looking to buy one, links would be nice

 

bendpack makes a tube bender, unless you are looking for a mandrel bender.

 

jd squared seems to be popular for the budget builders in here

 

I use the JD2 model 3. I did the air/hydraulic conversion. It works well.

 

i have the pro tools pro hd 105.it is a very good quality bender.it has a good degree ring.can be ordered with the air over hydraulic pack with a huge increase in cost.i dont have it and dont really think i need it.i have bent some pretty heavy tube with it with no problems.sorry for the lack of a link.google pro tools tube bender.

kevin

 

Trick Tools has a good selection of tubing benders. http://www.tricktools.com

 

DIY. Plans, discussion, and Pro-Tools version.

 

pro tools

 

hey sean, i rang cardwells today price excludes die's its 475+gst for dies

 

wow ill have to have a look at the ad again

 

I have a JD squared model 3 that cost me $300 used with stand and 1 1/2 die. Bends come out amazing and time and effort to bend is pretty minimal

 

I was looking into buying a bender from harbor freght tools to build my charge pipes and just mess around with it. I know I may get flamed for it, but with the hand pump ones is it a lot of effort for it and has anyone used one of these before?

 

jd2 just came out with a new bender the model 32. Its suppost to fit inbetween the model 3 and model 4. There having a special intro price of 395 on it right now. http://www.jd2.com/

 

that harbor freight bender will only be good for sc 40 pipe and they dont bend that very well.trust me i have used one and even on very thick pipe they make really crappy looking bends.they will not bend thin charge pipe at all.well they would but it would look like a cheepo muffler shop bend.

 

Got a JD2 model 3 as well. Only thing i dislike about it is its so hard to see the degree wheel when your bending large pipe so its almost a 2 man job in some cases.

 

like will it make it the wavy kind of bends that you can at get at like auto zone or will it be like crush bens that are smooth?

 

i have never tried thin tubing on one of these benders.knowing that it would make a crappy looking bend.i would think that the inside would crush in.not sure to what shape.if your doing charge pipe.just get some mandrel u bends.

 

i was also gonna try making some exhausts with it

 

it would be the same deal with exhaust tubing.its just too thin.once again this would be the right place to use stainless u bends or just steel u bends.that way you end up with a mandrel bent exhaust system.

 

ok thanks man

 

jd2 model 3 here as well. picked it up from tricktools.com





some of the crap its bent. (front half of cage, seat mounts, harness bar)

 

man thats some big *** pipe.what is it 2 inch sc 40?

 

1.75" .120 wall DOM tubing.

the main part of the cage is stock jeep and its a little bigger than 2"