HOME MADE TUBE BENDER

Home made tube bender made from a couple of belt pulleys and scrap steel.

Doesn't look like much but works just fine.

Build cost $10.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• home
• made
• tube
• bender
• scrap
• steel
• pulleys
• aluminium
• weld
• nuts
• bolts
• square
• round

[Hermanvogel]

Why didn't he just get a used Conduit bender? They bend easier, you can make offset bends and most all of them come with instruction. Good job though, I would have never thought of using V-Belt pullies,,,nice.

[hairyalien]

@Hermanvogel

See my reply to preprodigy above.

;)



[SpeedyChevy72]

ya u cant bend big pipe

[hairyalien]

@SpeedyChevy72

That is correct.

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[preprodigy]

ill give you credit for your ingenuity however if simplicity is key then for that sized pipe (something that could be bent bare handed if it werent for the pipe kinking) then id say a basic foot bender is ideal for this application anything thin walled from half inch up to 1" is easy with a foot bender its the ridgid pipe thats tough i would like to se this bender handle that, then i will be impressed. just seems like more effort then its worth. its cool though.

[hairyalien]

@preprodigy It was just an idea I had and wanted to try it to see if it worked.

I've built many things over the years "Just for the sake of it" as I enjoy tinkering.

It might get used one day, but so far it's only bent the pipe in the video and one before that.

But it may well get used for something else one day.

For steel pipe though, you'll need something bigger and stronger.

.

[hairyalien]

@chamblizi

Schematics?

Haha, does this look like something I made a drawing for?

Just some pieces of scrap I had laying around.

[zenzuzis]

Нормальное устройство, пойдет в подсобном хозяйстве.

[andTO86]

I know I've seen that adjuster before.... Guessing a toyota 22r/re?

[donyboy73]

very nice!

[elektrobey]

super

[chuckbear1961]

Good use of old scrap automotive pulleys & adjusting bracket. You probily have $0 in the parts cost

[iwantosavemoney]

nice build

[mahaloamerica]

Really great idea. I'm going to make one to use in my shop on a piece of plywood so I can mark it with common bend graduations and radius lengths. Heck, my HVAC service guy buddies and I would use this sucker on commercial jobsites, The lay out for most bends would be a snap and we rarely us anything other than 1/2 or 3/4 EMT. If you need an offset or odd bend pull out your foot bender. Having one tool dosen't mean you can't use other tools on the same job.

[roybofmn]

That's cool. I worked in an oil refinery as an instrument mechanic for 29 years and used just about every tubing bender known. Now I'm retired and really got a kick out of this... You're a cool dude. Thanks

[spacesaver100]

@hairyalien Win!!