Bender Stand

Spence

Spence

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does anyone here use a manual bender without it being bolted/slid into a reciever in the floor?

I am wanting to set up my bender, but i seriously estimate that i will be moving at least twice in the next year, so i really do not want to do anything permanent. As of now it will be at my parents house, and they are not at all crazy about the idea of anchors in their driveway...


if the base was large/heavy enough, i know it COULD work, but i wonder if it HAS worked for anyone, and how they did it.
 
Might try using the reciever tube on your truck/heep. Or maybe a ~4x4x3/16" piece of plate that you also stand on while bending, depending on what you're trying to bend..

:edit: but your best bet is going to be to set up your bender like the gottrikes benders with air over hydro and some casters.
 
hmmm the trailer hitch thing is a good idea, if i can make sure to set it up to keep a long piece of tube from hitting the jeep... i have a bunch of 2" square laying around, i may look into that.

yeah, the hydro looks like a good option, but it is either that or a cage at this point, becuse im broke, and the cage would come first.
 
NO TRAILER HITCH........I used a stand for this and tweaked my hitch frame to the passenger side of my Dodge. It's a Class 3 or 4 bolt on factory built hitch, no cheesy bumper crap or srap metal hack job. We only made about 6 bends, none a 90 deg. and on HREW 1 3/4 tube! I also learned you'll always be sending the tube toward your rig in the bender. Plus unless you really get complicated the bender bounces around like a drunk cause most recievers are slopy. Go to Northern and get the blackhawk brand air over jack for cherry pickers (comes with ends for pins) make two brackets and a stand with casters. Simple, portable and your trigger finger want even get tired. Oh also tried lags in concrete, they were only 1/2 but they eventually failed too.
 
awspence said:
if the base was large/heavy enough, i know it COULD work, but i wonder if it HAS worked for anyone, and how they did it.
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Nope, the base would have to be heavier than you could move to keep from rotating when bending, not a good way to do that at all...

Hydraulic is the only way to do it, I agree about the receiver hitch idea, I haven't tried it, but you had better have a STRONG hitch.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
NO TRAILER HITCH........I used a stand for this and tweaked my hitch frame to the passenger side of my Dodge. It's a Class 3 or 4 bolt on factory built hitch, no cheesy bumper crap or srap metal hack job. We only made about 6 bends, none a 90 deg. and on HREW 1 3/4 tube! I also learned you'll always be sending the tube toward your rig in the bender. Plus unless you really get complicated the bender bounces around like a drunk cause most recievers are slopy. Go to Northern and get the blackhawk brand air over jack for cherry pickers (comes with ends for pins) make two brackets and a stand with casters. Simple, portable and your trigger finger want even get tired. Oh also tried lags in concrete, they were only 1/2 but they eventually failed too.
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Was it a durango? If it's a 2500/3500 and your receiver even budged, you have problems. Though I agree, it's very sloppy.
I have a version of the gottrikes bender that I built and I couldn't be happier. For the little investment, you could have a far superior bender...
 
ah, thanks for the link, that makes it hard to not go hydro. That will be ordered soon, or i will be in raleigh next weekend, i wonder if i can count on it being in the store???
 
I got my name brand confused,it was the Torin model with a base for a pin, to me its easier to fab a mount for that style. Go to any bender site advertising a kit to up grade to hydro and study what they fabbed up. By the way the hitch is on a 1500 Ram 5.8, nothing speacial about the truck. I was just trying to make a point on how much leaverage is put through a manual bender setup. I left the hitch tweaked, puts my enclosed alittle further out of the centerline in the road!:D
 
Heavy work bench with casters?? Maybe not practical $$, but possible. We have a little workbench at work that consists of....

1/4" square channel frame, really heavy duty casters, 6" vise, and 3/8"?? plate on top. Top is approx 4'X5'.

Just a thought, kind of expensive though.
 
awspence said:
ah, thanks for the link, that makes it hard to not go hydro. That will be ordered soon, or i will be in raleigh next weekend, i wonder if i can count on it being in the store???
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Take one of the (legit) 15-20% off coupons with you and get it even cheaper. I had to weld "tabs" to the bottom of mine, but it was pretty simple. Here's a pic to get an idea, you would just have to bolt your bender to the frame. The base is an old bread cart and the rest is mostly scrap.

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awspence said:
ah, thanks for the link, that makes it hard to not go hydro. That will be ordered soon, or i will be in raleigh next weekend, i wonder if i can count on it being in the store???
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Dont count on them having it in the store

anyway, after 2 manual bends of 1 3/4" DOM, I ordered my air over hydraulic ram, I mean it can be bent manually, but it sucks

as for the stand, I built mine using 2" and 2 1/2" square tube, I welded the 2" to the bender mount, and used the 2 1/2" for the base, so it slides in and out just like a reciever hitch for easy storage
 
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