Modified Press Pipe bender

[jamblor]

Hello,

Here is another thing I recently mad for bending pipe. It uses a 20 ton shop press and just a little frame support the pipe.

http://www.geocities.com/route16_band/piperoller1.jpghttp://www.geocities.com/route16_band/piperoller2.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/route16_band/piperoller.jpg

So far it works pretty good for bending sch. 40 pipe. I also made the supports adjustable to be able to go closer and farther apart.

Victor

[Oldtin]

Victor, Is the upper die from a Harbor Freight bender?
Were you able to purchase the upper die separately?

Les Edmundson

[jamblor]

sorry the site i'm hosting the pics on has gone down for some reason, they'll be back soon i hope.

victor

[captainkirk]

I Like it MUCHO!!!!!!!

Kirk

[Jon13mn]

Thats really cool. Ideas on this site are great.
Jon

[davecourt]

yeah,too many ideas here and not enough time or space in my garage for all of them
dave court

[Boogiemanz1]

Welcome to MetalMeet Jon. Glad to see post from new members.
How about going to this thread and telling us a little about your self and what brought you to MetalMeet http://www.metalmeet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=750............john

[jamblor]

The only thing I'm pretty much going to change on this would be to add some sort of roller, perhaps even a boat roller to the bolts so that they dont mark up the pipe when bending. And so that they support the pipe better.

victor

[jamblor]

Oldtin,

The upper die isn't form Harbour Freight it's actuall from the Canadian version of that, Princess Auto. It cost me 14 dollars CDN I believe. You can buy seperate dies from 1/2" to 3" pipe.

Victor