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Has any one used one of these for bending a roll bar?

Randy

Problem with that is that it's a pipe bender, not a tubing bender. If you got the correct dies to do tubing, I don't see why you couldn't use it. As to using it the way it comes, you'll kink your tubing.

--JOsh

I used one to completely destroy an expensive length of 1.5" .095 DOM. It may work to make crude ovalized bends in mild steel plumbing but they are worthless when it comes to bending something like a roll bar. For that you will need a true mandrel bender.

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Don't need a mandrel bender, just something with proper dies. http://www.jd2.com/ for instance works extremely well.

I've used one to bend Sched 40 Pipe and it works fair, not so good for Tube.

but on the other hand some people have had luck grinding the dies to fit the tube OD, even then a 45° bend is the most your going to squeeze out without flattening the tube.

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I was just at our new local HF over lunch and noticed that they have a tubing bender now that might work just as well:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=31980

--JOsh

"COMPACT BAR & ROD BENDER"

Not tubing...

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HF is supposed to have a JD2 clone soon supposedly.

I love my JD2 but the die-sets are expensive, some over $200. I hope HF copied the tool exactly so I can try their dies. As much as I use them, I'll never wear them out (even if lower quality than JD2) and I'd like some more tubing diameters and radii.