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What ram are you putting on it? The air over hydraulic ram from Harbor Freight should be enough to bend 1.75 x 0.120 DOM. You'd pretty much have essentially the same bender we started with.

 

Yea, cause that thing kinda sucks.

 

The one from HF. I just scoured all over the JMR website and didn't see anything saying it couldn't bend .120 dom so I'm not sure where I got that from. I emailed them and asked them anyways.

woahwoahwoah it's a JD2 and you can't talk bad about that

 

Here’s a JD2 model 32 that can bend 2x.25 dom. It’s $800 and hydraulic. I think yours can do it too.

https://www.jd2.com/model-32-tube-bender-hydraulic

 

Yeah but that's pre-die and you still need a hydraulic pump. But I see your point and it's less expensive than I thought it'd be.

 

What bender do you have again?

 

The JMR one. Between the bender, die, swag offroad bracket, shipping for everything and hydraulic ram from harbor freight I have about $1,000 into it.

 

You'll be good. It will be slow AF, but it will get the job done. The worse part will be trying to keep multiple bend in the same plane.

Yea...

 

Wowza, JMR already respnded. Yes it'll bend .120 DOM and also 4130.

 

Just got off the phone with jmr since I wanted to know what that bender can do. He said it will bend 2x.25 dom. He did say that it’s hard on the dies and follower bars. But their dimensions are the same for industrial dies that are made of steel so their dies can be replaced with stronger ones.

 

That’s good to know. So far I’m impressed with their CS

 

I’ve got a pro tools MB 105HD with a HF Ram. It can bend .120 DOM. I suck at it but the tool is fine. The hard part is finding different dies that are less than the cost of the bender.

 

FACT! Edit #2. Model 32 AD does say .25 DOM. For $800 and no die, almost beliveable.
Zim

 

I'm trying to wrap my head around why you would even need 1/4" wall?

My God that would suck to work with!

 

For these trucks, you wouldn’t. I’m not really sure where you’d need to. That’s some seriously beefy stuff.

 

The classIII trailer hitches aren't even made out of 1/4".

 

What are you getting ready to bend, 1.50, 1.75?
Zim

 

I made this rocker panel replacement for the wife’s old 4runner out of 3/16 and could jack up the truck with it. If it were 1/4” it probably would have forced the jack into the ground while the truck stayed put. That stuff has dark matter or something in it that makes it special to work with.

 

1.75

I sorta like working with 1/4” because you can pump heat into it without care

 

It is nice being able to just max out the welder once in a while