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Originally Posted by knoll0351
I can't get the photo's off of my old phone.... but there is a tube bender at "daniel bunes"? here in GP (on Redwood Hwy before the fairgrounds) they're asking 85.00. I don't remember the brand but it's on a stand that brings it to waist high and has a long extendable lever type handle. There are dyes on the side ranging from small to pretty frickin' big, the largest had a number 3 on it... I took pictures so I wouldn't have to recall the specifics but it looked pretty good to me. However I don't know anything about tube benders. But it looked like a ratchet style to me...
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That sounds like a typical HF type pipe bender. Actual tubing benders are rather expensive.
I have one (the HF kind). I bought it because it was SUPPOSED to work with round and square stock. It only has the dies for square. Supposedly they work well for pipe, but not for tubing (kinks the tubing).
I've heard filling the tubing with sand prevents it from kinking, but I don't know how well that works in practice.