What size tubing do you guys use for cages and stuff, 1.75?

[howdiy]

I'm thinking about getting a tube bender and 1.75 is the biggest die available. I can use this on cars and trucks.

Is 1.75 too small for trucks?

 

[Hossbaby50]

no, just design the cage properly and it will be fine. My cage is 2" but 1.75" will do fine if design is correct.

Harley

 

[howdiy]

Thanks


Here is the tube bender for 400 dollars

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/p/661...lic-Round-Pipe-Bender.html?itemNo=tube bender

 

[HEAVY METAL]

used sched 80 for the main frame of buggy and sched 40 for the rest

 

[howdiy]

used sched 80 for the main frame of buggy and sched 40 for the rest

I was thinking about using some pipe for everything but the main hoops.

What are the OD's of those?

 

[kitasjimmy]

Be sure to use DOM tubing. Sch 80 & 40 may be good enough but it is a welded pipe (weak spots). I have always heard that tubing is recomended over pipe. I used 1.75-.120 wall. This is what they use to build stock car frames. Again these are things I have been told by other wheelers/builders. If you go with 2" you may find it hard to get someone to bend it for you. I took a 20 foot length to a muffler shop and had them put a series of different bends in it, then I just cut out the angles & welded them In as I built the cage. Worked out great & had plenty of options.

 

[k204dr]

or you could build one of these benders.
http://www.gottrikes.com/Tube_Bender.htm