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Postby Malcolm » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:08 pm

Right, I need to do some bending of round piping up to about 35mm diameter

Does anyone know any places that either hire mechanical benders, or perhaps does someone have access to one they want to share with me or something? At the moment I only need to do it a little bit, but in future I will need to do quite a bit more so I would like to find a good solution to this, other than going to pitstop and getting them to do it (or something)

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Postby Silent Knight » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:13 pm

http://www.sulco.co.nz/Product?Action=View&Product_id=3766

Maybe contact them and find out what the price of one is?
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Postby Malcolm » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:34 pm

I called their 0800 number but it appears to be blocked to cellphones. Can anyone near a landline give it a call ppplllleeeaaassseeee?

0800 800 488
Sulco Tools and Equipment

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115CVT2 : 2" 15 TONNE HYDRAULIC PIPE BENDER

Looks like it's fairly basic and could be quite cheap...
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Postby Silent Knight » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:38 pm

On the phone now...
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Postby Silent Knight » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:39 pm

And the price would be 1424.85$ +GST
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Postby fivebob » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:39 pm

Most likely between $500-1000 with tooling for a decent tubing bender.

Chevpac sell the Record brand benders for $860+gst but you have to buy the formers for each size you want to bend, and they cost $1-200 each :evil:
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Postby Malcolm » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:42 pm

haha what a joke - that thing's like 5 pieces of steel and a jack

I might have a go at making one sometime. I was looking at a DIY one that some guy made and it was really mint looking, although I would probably do it more like the SULCO one because it looks much easier to do
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Postby Silent Knight » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:43 pm

http://www.sulco.co.nz/Category?Action=View&Category_id=376

There's 2 other ones on there which are listed for allot cheaper...although one of them is out of stock.
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Postby Malcolm » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:49 pm

cheers
those things look seriously easy to make. I knew I bought that 5m of 19mm square tubing for something!
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Postby Malcolm » Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:02 pm

ah this one looks the business:
http://www.chevpac.co.nz/webshop/CHVIte ... 28%7C%7C27

$195 + gst and it comes with 6 formers from 1/2" to 2"
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Postby evil_si » Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:12 pm

the guys at chevpac are good to deal with, unlike the sulco wankers.
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Postby YeMs » Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:56 pm

we have a hydraulic press bender at work.. in tauranga :P cost about $15,000. shes called the blue bullet and an awesome piece of equipment for fabricating exhaust etc abit far from u tho.
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Postby vvega » Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:28 pm

if your talking for rollcages or supports the ones you want are the rolling mandrel type
they dont crush the tube like cheap hydrilic benders

but yeah i belive that is what five bob is talking about
last one i kew of bought was about 1200 + mandrels

you do get what you pay for :D

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Postby Malcolm » Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:15 pm

nah I'm not talking about doing roll cages. I can't imagine the mess I'd make trying to weld something like that into a car :lol: :lol:

It's just for coolant piping and other miscellaneous non-structural type things :)
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Postby vvega » Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:27 pm

tradezone stores have a kit for doing that for about 400 bucks
and its a rotating madrel type its just vice mounted

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Postby narlystarly » Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:30 pm

Work an an itm so will see if i can get you a trade price from some of our suppliers.
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Postby Punter » Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:58 pm

vvega wrote:if your talking for rollcages or supports the ones you want are the rolling mandrel type
they dont crush the tube like cheap hydrilic benders

but yeah i belive that is what five bob is talking about
last one i kew of bought was about 1200 + mandrels

you do get what you pay for :D

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We built a roll cage with a jack type bender, worked really well but was very time consuming, we had to bend the pipe a tiny bit then slide it through the bender a little bit, then repeat. Took ages but the end result was awsome.
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Postby Malcolm » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:49 pm

narlystarly wrote:Work an an itm so will see if i can get you a trade price from some of our suppliers.


cool :)
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Postby Snoozin » Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:05 pm

Hey....

We do a range of benders where I work, at Topmaq. Most popular is a 12 ton hydraulic bender, I think the sizes it can do ranges from 20mm right up to 51mm, it has cast formers to suit, with aluminium formers available as optional extras. Costs $313, I can do discounts as well.

Otherwise, we have a small benchtop mounted unit, which is better suiting to doing the thinner stuff, as it isn't hydraulic, it simply relies on brute strength and a big $&#$% lever. Price escapes me at the present but it's circa high $300's..... Also have a unit VERY similar to that Sulco one you posted, once again price escapes me....

If you'd like, call me on (03) 366 6143 (ask for Richard) and I can send you a catalogue of our entire stock listings, with tech info and so forth. We can freight stuff to your door as well.
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Postby fangsport » Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:12 pm

All_Fours wrote:cheers
those things look seriously easy to make.
damn straight! the beauty of building your own is that designed right, it would also be a press for pulleys, bearings etc.
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