want2race
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| posted on 20/2/05 at 03:08 AM |
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How do you bend the rear sections?
The little piece of round tube that goes on the bottoms and the top loop sections.
I bought a $100 pipe bender that crushed the hell out of it.
I bought a $50 conduit bender and its not a clean bend.
Whats everyone doing to bend it ? Its really getting on my nerves!
Cheers
~Jonathan
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chrisf
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| posted on 20/2/05 at 07:04 AM |
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I too used a conduit bender without drama. The bender required 7/8" tube, which is what I used. If you use larger or smaller tube, you'll
get a strange result.
I bent mine in one long swoop. Speaking on the upper tube here: you can use two 90 degree bends and weld them to the straight section.
Really though, you userstand that the aluminum or GRP will cover any neck-downs/crinckles, right?
--Chris
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chrisf
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| posted on 20/2/05 at 07:05 AM |
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Also, no need to get frustrated with it... Return the $100 tool and rent a conduit bender at the Home Depot.
--Chris
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niceperson709
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| posted on 20/2/05 at 08:00 AM |
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I found a couple of "bauhaus cchairs at my local tip which had the right radius bends and cut and shut them to suit worked ot perfect .
best wishes
Iain
 
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 20/2/05 at 09:28 AM |
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Very clever solution, looks great!
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clbarclay
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| posted on 20/2/05 at 11:02 AM |
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I made 2 jigs, one from wood, the round sander in pic mounts in electric drill and is excelant for shaping the wood.
The other is made from scrap metal.
Both require G-clamps for effective operation.
Making your own jigs mean that the corners can be any radious you chose.
 
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clbarclay
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| posted on 20/2/05 at 11:04 AM |
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Having just seen the size my photo how do you make attached pictures smaller?
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Chris_R
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| posted on 20/2/05 at 11:54 AM |
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Photoshop or similar. There's not an inbuilt facility.
A bit of slapstick never hurt anyone.
http://www.chris.renney.dsl.pipex.com/
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want2race
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| posted on 20/2/05 at 04:16 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by niceperson709
I found a couple of "bauhaus cchairs at my local tip which had the right radius bends and cut and shut them to suit worked ot perfect .
best wishes
Iain
I dont understand.. What is that ?
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clbarclay
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| posted on 20/2/05 at 04:24 PM |
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Any chair with tubular metal legs could do. If you have a tip, rubbish dump, etc. that has old furniture on it check it out.
Remember that the top peice can be made from two seperate parts. I deliberatly bent 2 seperate tubes then cut them to leng and inserted the thread
from an old bolt into the tubes to make the middle join stronger.
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200mph
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| posted on 20/2/05 at 04:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by clbarclay
Any chair with tubular metal legs could do. If you have a tip, rubbish dump, etc. that has old furniture on it check it out.
yup thats what I did, very quick and looks great.
Mark
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blueshift
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| posted on 21/2/05 at 06:02 PM |
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I gave the local wrought ironwork guy £20 to bend them in his tube bender. Plus he knows what he's doing.. bonus.
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niceperson709
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| posted on 21/2/05 at 09:27 PM |
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With regaurd to the question "what is a Bahaus Chair" It is achair designed by som clever germans which was bent from one continious piece
if tube with 90 degree bends , any way the point i was trying to make is that it is not always necessary to make every thing if you can spot somthing
that can be adapted to do the job I was hoeifie dto see that someone had spent 100 gbp for a tool to make a couple of bends my solution cost nothing ,
Keep your eyes open and your imagination running free 
best wishes
Iain
Best wishes IAIN
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DEAN C.
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| posted on 28/2/05 at 11:20 PM |
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Just to be a boring git, Bauhaus was I believe the German design college or school .
Also an excellent new wave/punk group from mid 80's featuring Pete Murphy singing songs like Bella Lugosi's dead,now that is SAD.
Once I've finished a project why do I start another?
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NS Dev
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| posted on 1/3/05 at 01:04 PM |
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I bought my chassis so can't comment directly, but I have made several anti roll bars with similar bends and have had a good degree of success
using a similar technique to that mentioned in "the book" i.e. heating with a blowlamp to dull red and just bendign a bit at a time in a
vice!
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