So my neighbor and I have been discussing for some time now that we need a tube bender. Neither one of us was to impressed with the standard Princess Auto tube kinkers. We searched the interweb until we found a decent set of plans to build our own.

Over the next few days I will document the entire build. The plan is to integrate air over hydraulic jack with standard protool dies. The dies should arrive this week.

Stay tuned...

Monk

Any progress. Wouldn't mind dropping by for a look see.

I've looked into a few of these. I'm interested to see this one in operation.

Our dies should be here any day. I'm planning to begin building the rear section of the Taco this weekend. I'll post when I've started. You can drop over for a look.

Monk

Dies have finally arrived. Assembly of the bender will begin tonight.

Pictures to follow shortly.

Cheers,

Monk

Let me know a good time to drop over for a look. I can bring over the notcher as well.

A few minor issues to take care of. First 2 bends resulted in bender failure. Modification to the design is underway and a 3rd attempt may take place tonight.

I haven't updated this thread in a while. We did manage to get the bender working good. I used it to bend my entire back half of the truck. The concept worked so well I decided to draw up the parts and have them laser cut at a local machine shop. I have not assembled the laser cut version of the bender yet. As soon as we have the new bender assembled, I will post some pictures.

Cheers,

Monk

Cool..... looking forward to seeing them.

So obviously the bender got done. Actually several versions of the bender got done. The pictures below show the most recent version.









It needs to be cleaned up and a real base made but you get the idea.

Cheers,

Monk