Is this Mandrel?
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Is this Mandrel? hey guys, I was at a local exhaust shop, and they have a "master bend 5000" or "bend master 5000"
one of those two, and they said it was a mandrel bender, I took a picture of a small piece they bent, but it decreased the diameter when it was bent? It doesn't have the "wrinkles" of a "crush" style bender.
I just didn't know if this was actually a mandrel bend, since the ones I buy from summit are the same diameter all the way around (e.g. a U-bend)
one of those two, and they said it was a mandrel bender, I took a picture of a small piece they bent, but it decreased the diameter when it was bent? It doesn't have the "wrinkles" of a "crush" style bender.
I just didn't know if this was actually a mandrel bend, since the ones I buy from summit are the same diameter all the way around (e.g. a U-bend)
Good luck. I couldn't find a shop locally that had a mandrel bender either. Very expensive equipment. I just bought what bends I needed online and brought them to the muffler shop to get installed.
see how its crushed? that is why its called "crushed pipe" or thats what I have always called it. Someone was just trying to take your money. Hard to find a mandrel bender, they are $$$$$$$+$
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Originally Posted by jester1
did you pay for it?
nah i didn't even spend a dime. I bought a bunch of stainless steel tubing from them, so they were giving me some free work
the matl pictured was just steel
I contacted a company about a mandrel and it was ~$49k
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You will not find ANY typical muffler shops that have a mandrel bender. They cost $25K plus, unless you get a piece of crap and that kinda defeats the point. Only very large production shops have them.
at my last job we did a lot of big rig stuff. back in the back there was a mandrel bender that they bent 5 inch exhaust on all day. it was pretty awesome. i worked second so all the big wigs were gone. at the end i the shift i went back there a couple of times and screwed with it some. it was pretty interesting. i wish they had a 4 inch die for it. i would have built me an exhaust for the ol'heep. oh, and one day it broke down. they had to get a new piece for the ram on it and it was like 10 grand or something like that. i think the bender itself was around 70 or 80 grand new.
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yeah i priced out a nice one and it was ~$49k
was thinking about it since nobody around here has a mandrel
BUT I'm goina throw that $49k towards my Factory Five Mark 3
was thinking about it since nobody around here has a mandrel
BUT I'm goina throw that $49k towards my Factory Five Mark 3
