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AINT SKEERED

AINT SKEERED

Balls to the Walls
Location
Salt Lake
Pipe and tube are measured differently. One is by outside diameter the other by inside diameter, cant remember which is which right now. So if you try to bend tube in a pipe bender it will crush.
 
Caleb

Caleb

Well-Known Member
Location
Riverton
if you intend to use pipe then go for it, for tube it doesn't do a very good job.

Tube is outside diameter, pipe is inside diameter.
 
Ohms

Ohms

'Poser Wheeler
Location
the gates of hell
First of it's not a pipe bender it's a pipe KINKER...
Second...The only thing I trust pipe to do is send my little turds down to wherever they go....
Third....well...PIPE



'Nuff said
 
greenjeep

greenjeep

Cause it's green, duh!
Location
Moab Local!
What's wrong with pipe?

Broncoman said:
I have one and use it all the time but the dies are junk. I had new dies made and it works just fine
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Broncoman built my cage and fenders out of pipe, and I have no complaints about it at all.

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cruiseroutfit

cruiseroutfit

Cruizah!
Moderator
Vendor
Location
Sandy, Ut
Pipe is different than Tube, we all know that... but Pipe as used in the HF bender (Sch40) is NOT poo pipe, I can't figure out for the life of me why people keep using that connotation??

Has anyone ever looked at the strength numbers of sch40 versus DOM or HREW? You would be surprised ;), and yes DOM is much lighter than Sch40 (which happens to be its main advantage).

I know alot of people that have built compete cages out of sch40, HF benders, etc (Olly, Tracy Evans for example), they rolled more than the average and the cages did hold up fine...

Sure some may argue "if your going to do it, do it right...". I want to know who is actually heat treating their 4130 cages post TIG'n the joints... ;)
 
wr250

wr250

insert lame comment
Location
hurricane
i used 1.5" sch40 handrail pipe. this is HREW rolled to 1.5" pipe spec. it is approved for structural steel use.
 
Caleb

Caleb

Well-Known Member
Location
Riverton
cruiseroutfit said:
Pipe is different than Tube, we all know that... but Pipe as used in the HF bender (Sch40) is NOT poo pipe, I can't figure out for the life of me why people keep using that connotation??

Has anyone ever looked at the strength numbers of sch40 versus DOM or HREW? You would be surprised ;), and yes DOM is much lighter than Sch40 (which happens to be its main advantage).

I know alot of people that have built compete cages out of sch40, HF benders, etc (Olly, Tracy Evans for example), they rolled more than the average and the cages did hold up fine...

Sure some may argue "if your going to do it, do it right...". I want to know who is actually heat treating their 4130 cages post TIG'n the joints... ;)
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exactly, its funny people complain about pipe but most have never looked at the numbers. Search PBB, I know all the numbers have been posted, it'd surprise you ;)

Personal preference is to use tube (HREW or DOM), but its just a personal preference. :)
 
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