ok, so i have a JD2 tube bender and need to mount it so as to use it. i live in a rental home, so i can't just go putting studs into the concrete of the garage (although I've thought about doing it, then when i move out, cut them flush with the concrete and patch...). i need ideas on how to mount my bender in a decent, workable, non-permanent way. i have three ideas:
1. build some sort of hitch-mount system so it can be installed to the back of a truck. pretty good idea, because then it's portable so i can help people who need tube bent. problem is, i have a blazer with a cage in it, and so i'd have problems with tubing getting hung up on my cage. i can think of one way to do this that would work, but i'd be limited to a maximum of about 90 degree bends, unless i bent to 90 degrees and then rotated the whole bender so as to be able to keep bending.
2. build a concrete rolling platform. this would have studs in it so the bender would be removable so as to store the base under my truck. pretty sucky idea because it would be big and heavy and cumbersome and probably expensive to build.
3. go dig a hole on one of the many open lots in the subdivision that have yet to be built on, pour some concrete into it, let it set up and then sink some studs into that lump of concrete in the ground. this seems like the easiest, most inexpensive way of doing this. downside is that i'd have to carry the tubing over to the empty lot and then do the bends, then carry it back, etc. not to mention, it would be a pain to be in the middle of a project and have someone go and build a house on top of my bender base!
ideas?
1. build some sort of hitch-mount system so it can be installed to the back of a truck. pretty good idea, because then it's portable so i can help people who need tube bent. problem is, i have a blazer with a cage in it, and so i'd have problems with tubing getting hung up on my cage. i can think of one way to do this that would work, but i'd be limited to a maximum of about 90 degree bends, unless i bent to 90 degrees and then rotated the whole bender so as to be able to keep bending.
2. build a concrete rolling platform. this would have studs in it so the bender would be removable so as to store the base under my truck. pretty sucky idea because it would be big and heavy and cumbersome and probably expensive to build.
3. go dig a hole on one of the many open lots in the subdivision that have yet to be built on, pour some concrete into it, let it set up and then sink some studs into that lump of concrete in the ground. this seems like the easiest, most inexpensive way of doing this. downside is that i'd have to carry the tubing over to the empty lot and then do the bends, then carry it back, etc. not to mention, it would be a pain to be in the middle of a project and have someone go and build a house on top of my bender base!
ideas?
