Bending tube with no bender.

[jarfly]

So I'm back to fabin my bumper for my 97, Got all my plate work done now its time for a bit of tubeege..lol
So any ideals on bending with out a bender? And don't say to go buy one. I don't want to spend a single penny on a bender just yet as I won't be useing it at all after I bulid this bumper..I got some oxc/acy torchs to heat it. MY ideal way to fill with sand, heat and bend over a pieace of larger pipe I got. Id most likey just tack weld the pieace I am bending to the larger pipe to hold it.

Any outher I deals on this?

 

[tbirdsps]

filling with sand is the trick I think. Then heat and bend.

 

[brinker88]

filling with sand is the trick I think. Then heat and bend.

Cap the ends then

 

[NMB2]

So I'm back to fabin my bumper for my 97, Got all my plate work done now its time for a bit of tubeege..lol
So any ideals on bending with out a bender? And don't say to go buy one. I don't want to spend a single penny on a bender just yet as I won't be useing it at all after I bulid this bumper..I got some oxc/acy torchs to heat it. MY ideal way to fill with sand, heat and bend over a pieace of larger pipe I got. Id most likey just tack weld the pieace I am bending to the larger pipe to hold it.

Any outher I deals on this?

Video this when you do it

kthxby

 

[88_Eddie]

do you have a vise?

 

[4.0B2]

make sure to video and take lots of pics.. i wanna see if this works!

 

[lone-wolf]

Friend and I tried it with vise + sand and torch heat. Still collapsed(not enough sand?)
Ended up cutting something like 2 30degree angles and 2 15degree angles and welding it all together for the 90degree bend.
Exhaust work, looks weren't important.

 

[jarfly]

This is for a bumper. Like I said I don't really want to buy a bender just yet. As I wont be useing it a lot and I need some new rubber..lol But I think my uncle is goin to let me use his harbor freight tube kinker. But im still goin to try this. Done some talking with a few guys and said to fill with sand, and heat cheery ready and than bed SLOW.....I would't suggest doin this on a cage or something that is goin to see some stress.

 

[bobbywalter]

use 40 pipe.


wheel rotor/wheel etc for a die.



for a bumper its fine. its been getting done since steel was made into a tube/pipe

 

[jarfly]

Yea was thinking about the rotor. I allready have some tubeing, I'm not sure what kind it is i'd say something bout like 40...it was free so its goin to be use.lol

 

[kimcrwbr1]

Ask Guaii there is nothing he hasn`t done.

 

[kimcrwbr1]

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