Manual exhaust tube bender?
11-23-2005, 08:48 PM
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Manual exhaust tube bender? Anyone sell a reasonably priced exhaust tube bender? I need it to bend 3" pipe.
Also, anyone ever tried something like this...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...RK%3AMEWA%3AIT
The guy said it would bend exhaust tubing no problem. But im worried it would kink.
Also, anyone ever tried something like this...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...RK%3AMEWA%3AIT
The guy said it would bend exhaust tubing no problem. But im worried it would kink.
11-23-2005, 10:32 PM
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1. No
2. yes, i use it for roll bar tubing and it bends 1 5/8" chromoly alright. I would think you'd be crushing the exhasut tubing. You're not going to get any 3" exhaust piping to bend without kinking - unless you go spend 30K on a mandrel bender.
2. yes, i use it for roll bar tubing and it bends 1 5/8" chromoly alright. I would think you'd be crushing the exhasut tubing. You're not going to get any 3" exhaust piping to bend without kinking - unless you go spend 30K on a mandrel bender.
11-24-2005, 12:23 AM
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Those benders are junk! Only think they might work ok on is really heavy wall pipe for water lines of something. You definitely don't want to use for a cage or exhaust tubing.
Then proper bender for doing exhaust tube is a mandrel bender. They are extremely expensive and not cost efficient to own unless you're going into the exhaust building business. If you want to do your own exhaust, purchase some mandrel U-bends from various online companies then cut and weld whatever configuration you need. You can look on my site to see more what I'm talking about.
Then proper bender for doing exhaust tube is a mandrel bender. They are extremely expensive and not cost efficient to own unless you're going into the exhaust building business. If you want to do your own exhaust, purchase some mandrel U-bends from various online companies then cut and weld whatever configuration you need. You can look on my site to see more what I'm talking about.
