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

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

Also, no need to get frustrated with it... Return the $100 tool and rent a conduit bender at the Home Depot.

--Chris

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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Very clever solution, looks great!

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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Having just seen the size my photo how do you make attached pictures smaller?

Photoshop or similar. There's not an inbuilt facility.

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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

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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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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.

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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.

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

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.

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!