1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I downloaded Fusion 360 so I'm halfway there

 

Well I used your piece today, but I still have a shit ton of 12 gauge...I mean like a whole 12-15 sq ft of it or so

 

@eon_blue





Maybe @04Pre_Runner can jump on it

 

Damn that's cheap even for non-running, I bet you could flip it to a guy named Boris for profit

 

Or Leon

 

Sick of needing 3" tube rounds... and the shipping... need a mandrel bender but all the cheap ones only go up to 2"

 

Plus aren't mandrel benders upwards in the tens of thousands?

Must be nice to have such a budget for a personal tool.

 

definitely not, and the 1 that is I've never seen tubing that large there

500 bucks for the ones up to 2"

 

If I need to drill a few dozen holes in a chassis for riv-nuts, is a stepper bit and punch my best bet?

 

You sure you don't just mean a manual tube bender?

Or hydraulic tube bender (which normally sits between $1-2k).

Mandrel bending utilizing some more tooling, something goes in the pipe, and it's much more precise without changing the tube's diameter as it's bent...that's what I remember when I had exhaust being bent for me on the Corvette.

Link this $500 'mandrel' bender?

 

Yeah, get a nice Irwin step bit and run it at a reasonable speed and it'll go a looooooooong time

 

I mean ya my terminology probably is lacking... Just one that makes it smooth instead of the autozone special
https://www.jd2.com/model-32-tube-bender-manual

 

Think you suggested an Irwin to me like 2-3 years ago

Still got it

 

sounds good

 

Yep that's just a tube bender; mandrel is another $5-8k

Hear their dies are awesome (that's where the money is at), but they never answer the phone's and customer service is horrible

 

Plenty of clones of the JD that use their dies too. Like a woodward or something. I'd get a rogue if I was in the market, vertical bending wastes less space

 

@Sperrunner
@Empty_Lord

Check this shit out

 

Even the DXF plans/file on Plasma Spider can use the JD dies

I should try it one day

 

Cobalt, HSS, or TiN?