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one can probably make a die, out of some 3/16 plate steel, and some wood take and cut the wood, to the radius you want, and then bolt the steel on the sides of it, if one needs a radius starter, one can take a third piece of metal, use wood for a filler, about 1/8" more than the wood filler, and put in the middle it will compress the bottom of the tube and help it bend easier drill a hole for ...
They both (12 ton pipe bender and HF compact bender) will do it, but like i said the woodward $100 eBay tube bender with the 3/4" and 1" square die makes a cleaner bend, I'll try to find pics. There is also a great thread I believe called "$25 square tube bender" that I know would work well.
Shop outfitters used to sell square tubing dies for their 20/20 Compact bender, but with the proliferation of cheap knock offs, they changed the design and the cost is now fairly prohibitive. You have to keep a few things in mind with this. 1" square tube is relatively easy to bend in the average wall thicknesses manually.
Is there a way to bend both hardway and easyway big rectangular/square tubing without spending thousands on a hydraulic machine in the video that takes up whole room and still get clean bends? Last edited by HelloStranger; 11-07-2014 at 10:57 PM .
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The other night I was in the shop and needed a 90 bent out of a piece of 1" square tubing. After a little head scratching and rummaging through my junk piles, this is what I come up with. 282901282911 It worked well enough for my application , at least until I get hossfeld built.
Here are some pics of my homemade square tubing bender die that I made from 1/4" steel plate and a cheapo HF pipe bender. The tubing is 1" square 0.125" wall 6061-T6 aluminum. The bend shown was just a test in the T6 tube to check for deformation. I plan on having the tubing annealed back to the "0" condition before the actual bends are made.
So i decided to make a tubing bender for the task of bending the curved gates...I started with a 3/16 plate to which i attached a die. I made the die from pieces of 14 ga mild steel that i cut to a quarter circle shape...Next I attached the die to the plate with 3/8 inch bolts so they could swivel.
It was mostly 1" square tubing with .125" walls. If you are using steel tubing at 1.25" diameter you can go with the thinnest walled stuff that you can actually bend and weld well. .080" tubing would be plenty strong enough.
I'm new to fabrication. I don't own many tools for fabrication, adding as projects dictate. my latest project I want to do that requires bending steel square tubing in the 1/4" to 1/2" size.