Giving myself a Christmas present!

[rwright07]

http://www.jd2.com/shop/custom.aspx?recid=1

im getting a used M-Tech model 3 tubing bender with 1 1/2", 1 3/4", and 1 7/8" dies!

time to start building a cage, sliders, roofrack, tube steel desk, tube steel rocking chair, ETC! anybody got other awesome ideas for tube creations?

oh yea, and i found a horizontal bandsaw on CL for $100 bucks!

these will go well with the miller TIG we picked up this spring!

(oh yea im excited if no one noticed)

 

[American84K5]

Awesome!

Have fun

I need to get one later on down the road.

 

[One_Ton_k5]

Just FYI, it's only another $100 for the new Model 32.

Looks a lot better IMO. That's the one I'm ordering.....

http://www.jd2.com/shop/custom.aspx?recid=7


Never mind, I just re-read your post and saw that the bender is a used part.

 

[moneypit_K5]

anybody got other awesome ideas for tube creations?

hmm, my truck needs stuff...

 

[rwright07]

hmm, my truck needs stuff...

well as it happens, once we get the bender and some time we are going to be prototyping bumpers, sliders, and eventually a bolt on rear 4link system... but these are just in the idea stage right now.

time to finish finals, then hit the computer and start Solidworks'ing up some stuff.

I will start a new thread and update it as new ideas, prototypes, and finished parts are completed.

dont worry, there will be LOTS of pictures.

 

[scouthead]

anybody got other awesome ideas for tube creations?

Build a cart for your welder.

first thing I made when I bought my bender:

 

[rwright07]

ooh thats sweet, ive got one for the tig, but i think the 110 mig could use one.