weiBes trooper Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Last night at work i tried my hand at bending a backpack frame.i found out that a half inch conduit bender doesnt have a tight enough radius to it.the half inch conduit workrs great,i just need to find a bender that has the rite radius,then i could make abunch of frames cheap.it took me about fifteen minutes to bend up this one,i forgot that the top of the frame is straight tubes and doesnt connect.plus i made the heel part to big so i cut it down and reconnected it.the next one i do will be just like the BS backpack frame,this one was done on a whim and i bent it from memory using no example to work from. and in a hurry.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD-1536 Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 cool progress. Keep us updated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weiBes trooper Posted October 23, 2006 Author Share Posted October 23, 2006 Will do.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florida_Phil Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Ahhh, let me know if you figure something out! I should have posted, I grabed a lenght of EMT about 3 weeks ago, and layed hands on a pipe bender too with plans to do just what you did. But I hit the same snag that the pipe bender didn't have a small enough bend radius. I guess I could make my open pipe bender with what ever radius I wanted, but I've kind of stalled lately only getting work done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weiBes trooper Posted October 27, 2006 Author Share Posted October 27, 2006 I found what i believe the rite bender for the job.just got to order it and some aluminium tubing which i should be able to get here in town. http://www.toolsusa.com/cgi-bin/sgin010 ... 2711271441 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SethB6025 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Oooh! Nice. Keep us updated on any developments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weiBes trooper Posted October 28, 2006 Author Share Posted October 28, 2006 Oooh! Nice. Keep us updated on any developments. doubley will do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weiBes trooper Posted November 8, 2006 Author Share Posted November 8, 2006 Still havent decided on which tubing bender i will buy,still looking for a better deal.hopefully soon,i will have one and start the project.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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