Doug Krebs
01-26-2004, 02:13 PM
This weekend we built a cage for Derek's blazer and it was pretty successful for the first go around. Having the bender welded to the box blade didn't help with the speed of the project. Everytime we need to do something different we had to pick it up and set it on a dolly and move it. Damn thing gets heavy after a while.
Anyways, I used the pirate technique "Bendin Tube 101" because it was easy to do and wanted to get aquainted with the bender, however will only go so far. It's annoying first of all because you have to draw it on the floor, and second it only does single plain bends.
Who has experience with multiple plane bends? Scott, Landon, Cody, Busa???
For reference and example I'll explain what I mean by a multiple plane bend. Take this EB for example, everything on the cage is pretty easy to do. The windshield loop has 2 different planes, but they aren't complicated one's.
What if you had a tube that went from the floor up to the dash and then made an angle towards the center of the EB and up to reach the roof. How do you calculate this? Most people on pirate say they use autocad. Do ya'll just estimate and use your eye?
Anyways, I used the pirate technique "Bendin Tube 101" because it was easy to do and wanted to get aquainted with the bender, however will only go so far. It's annoying first of all because you have to draw it on the floor, and second it only does single plain bends.
Who has experience with multiple plane bends? Scott, Landon, Cody, Busa???
For reference and example I'll explain what I mean by a multiple plane bend. Take this EB for example, everything on the cage is pretty easy to do. The windshield loop has 2 different planes, but they aren't complicated one's.
What if you had a tube that went from the floor up to the dash and then made an angle towards the center of the EB and up to reach the roof. How do you calculate this? Most people on pirate say they use autocad. Do ya'll just estimate and use your eye?