i want to roll beads on end of turbing for charge piping and rad hoses. but i can't justify buying the bead form jr.
was looking at the harbor freight bead roller for 100bucks. has anyone ever tried using one of these for rolling beads on end of tubing? just wondering if you can set the throat depth stop to set t he bead on tubing. but wondering if anyone elzse tried this before i try to purchase one

 

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/cust...bead-tool.html

making one for myself soon

 

Crude looking but if it works

 

typically i do stainless. i found a bead roller for plumbing. but wondered if anyone has use it before. will need to find a link to it.

 

Last shop I worked at had a hand operated bead form tool and it was the cats *** http://www.beadform.com/

 

yeah i have been eyeing those up. but can't justify the cost. just looking into other alternatives. have used the bead form and it is kick ***.

 

At the shop i work at we just weld a bead, sometimes two, around the end of the tubing. It works just as good as a bead rolled in it. We have a bead roller, but its for sheet not tubing.

 

that is what i do now. just looks better when they are rolled.

 

Acidrain088....Good IdeA.....

 

yeah thats true jeff, but it looks better if your slick like me. . Our bead roller will do charge piping, but not small diameter pipe for rad hoses and such.

 

found a new version of the parker WWII bead tool. should be here in two weeks.

 

so we can call you and youll bring it up to our shop when we need to use it?

 

or you can bring your peices to shop lol. i will let you know more details once i get it on how well it works. pretty excited about it.

 

lol. Yeah let me know because if it works well then Ill talk to Curt about aquiring one for the shop.

How's business going anyways Jeff? Doing alot of fabricating lately?

 

been slammed here. i said i was getting out of fab work. instead i can't keep tubing in stock. just bought two pickup truck loads in last two weeks. just restocked today and it will be gone by end of week.

 

I've got the harborfreight one, I have bead rolled thin sheetmetal panels and aluminum tubing. It will not due steel tubing, it may do it if you heat it up with a torch.

 

wow, you really picked up alot of fab work. Thats great to hear. You making money on it or are you still wondering why it seems like you lose money when you pick up the welder?

Ive been working on this crazy exhaust for the GTM that was at WOW. Ill post up some pics when I get more done. Im about 4 days into it and about 2/3rds done.

 

i make more money wrenching but my heart is to build ****.
i just did true duals on a 86 iroc. it had long tubes so i did 3 inch true duals with x pipe up over axle and out the back like stock using SLP resonators for mufflers. it had plenty of ground clearance too. turned out pretty badass i even impressed myself lol

 

lol thats cool.

Heres that GTM exhaust. Some of it still needs finish welded and I have to find locations, cut the pipes and install the 3 cutouts per side. How would you like to tackle this jumbled up mess of pipes? The welds look good, but my shitty cell phone camera wont pick up the detail.




This is the collector pipe I handmade. The collector flange on a LS7 is oval. What a PITA this was to make and make it look decent.

 

looks good. one day whenever i get a camera to take pics i will have to show you some stuff i have built. that doesn't look too bad to build. just takes time that is all