Does anyone have any experience building diy pipe bender. Any

>>1094483
Bamp for interest.

Fucking hand bender is not master race at all.

>>1094483
pipe pipe or tubing pipe?

>lmgtfy diy pipe bender

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OP here.
I want bend pipes for roll-cages and dune buggy frames mostly. Have done metalworking and restoring cars. Now i am thinking of building roll-cage.
I have googled already and gotten shitload of ideas. That's why I am asking for superior design.

>>1094596
Just buy one for shit like that you gimp. Or use doughnuts. Or sand fill.

Wood will break almost immediately. Tube Steel for cages is very strong

>>1094865
>Tube Steel for cages is very strong

This. Wood will bend copper, brass and perhaps thin wall aluminum. Not much more.

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Yep figured as much that wood wont be a option. I just liked the design, maybe metal version of that will be better.
I just wanted to know if someone has built pipe bender and what is superior design of them out of all others.

Pic unrelated: truck engine I rebuilt.

>>1094967
I saw a homemade pipebender constructed like a block splitter with a hefty tractor driven hydraulic ram. The hard part is coming by the forms, if you don't use them the pipes will go flat. there are inexpensive hand jacked chinese pipe benders built around a bottle jack so you won't make one cheaper than you buy one.

>>1094483
I use 2 at work, one is like $10,000 the other 90,000, for roll cages you would need to BUY a $5,000 one, or be handy as fuck

Visit the Pirate 4x4 forums and Jalopy Journal as well as chopper forums (benders are used often for frames).

>>1094967

There's no low end with benders.

If you are going to build something out of DOM you need to drop some cash.

Here's a couple of good resources for building:

race-dezert.com
dezertrangers.com


There are many build threads and examples of how to do cages right i.e no dead tubes, proper triangulation, gusseting etc. Feel free to ignore the obnoxious userbase of both.

Since these sites are geared to high speed stuff, the better designs will be plenty strong and even overkill for some applications.

>>1094600
do you know what /diy/ stands for?