Anyone ever try an Affordable Bender?

[Kartorbust]

There's a company making tubing benders under the name Affordable Bender, kind of tempted to get one myself with 1" and 1 1/4" dies since that will be the most common sizes I'll be working with, maybe 1 1/2" as well just in case.

Each bender comes with 1 die for $399, but additional dies can be had looks like for $150 or so each. Uses a hydraulic bottle jack or something similar to bend the tubing.

Wondering if anyone on here has ever bought one or messed around d with them before.

Affordable Tube Benders, tube notchers, metal fabrication welding

Affordable Bender offers quality tube bender and tube bending products, tube notchers, fabrication welding services

www.affordablebender.com

 

[Sparkwizard]

Looks like a fancy electrical conduit bender. I have never seen or tried one, but I have a Harbor Freight hydraulic bender. It is terrible. I bought a Vevor manual bender last year. I like it alot. I welded it to a hitch ball adapter so I can mount it to my truck. It takes some force, but it does a good job. I also added a 6 foot piece of 1 1/2 galvanized pipe to the original handle.

 

[Kartorbust]

The body at least appears to be out of 1/4" plate. Conduit benders are not nearly as robust. I had thought about getting the rolling Harbor Freight tubing bender and doing the SWAG Offroad mods to it, but I don't know. Pro-tools and Rogue Fab are prohibitively expensive for hobbyists. Though the way my wife is talking, if this one goes well, she may want me to build a 2 seater.

 

[Master Hack]

I know ya'll know that tubing and pipe have different OD sizes, so this is a free public service announcement to remind ya'll to buy the right tool for the material ya wanna bend. Pipe and rigid conduit are the same OD and EMT (thin wall) conduit is another size.
Yer Welcome!

 

[Kartorbust]

Well aware. That's why I have been spending time converting my buggy plans to proper dimensions and tubing. Plans called for black pipe to be used, which is completely wrong. So working on getting it done up for Drawn over mandrel (DOM) tubing for the cage and a-arms.

 

[Hellion]

Affordable Bender = drinking at home

Yes, all the time.