$300-$500 hydraulic benders!

[uglyota]

Wow!
coleman racing:
http://www.colemanracing.com/pics/pn1225.jpg
homegrown:
http://www.blindchickenracing.com/tools/Tube%20Bender/bender07.jpg
The guy's webpage with lots of pics (http://www.blindchickenracing.com/tools/Tube%20Bender/Tubingbender.htm)
and a thread on Pirate discussing them (http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=266264)

[robertf03]

I posted that on here about a year ago :flipoff2:

a protools bender is 500-700. I'll pay the 200 bucks for someone to fab it for me.

[uglyota]

...and another $100 or so to hydro it, or another couple hundred to have someone else fab that for you

besides, I wasn't interested in benders about a year ago :flipoff2:

[robertf03]

...and another $100 or so to hydro it, or another couple hundred to have someone else fab that for you

besides, I wasn't interested in benders about a year ago :flipoff2:


a 6 ton bottle jack is a far cry from a hydraulic ram. I've had to use 6 foot cheater bars on them just to press bearings.

[uglyota]

The point is that it would probably be just as easy to build or modify one of these for a hydraulic ram as it would be to convert a JD2 to hydraulic, and would cost hundreds less...you just buy the dies