Exhaust Bender...what to look for to use for Chassis's

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I found a welding company either going out of business or liquidating some stuff and they've got a "exhaust tubing bender hydraulic; digital; less dies" about twice what a manual bender would cost. I know the very expensive mandrel benders will bend exhaust tubing and as well .120 and .188. So if the machine is too old to have specs...what brands and what indicators can I look for to tell if it'll handle the stuff we'd use it for.
 
From what I've seen, if it pushes from the middle with 2 dies on the outside, it's a kink-o-matic.

all the tubing benders I've seen draw the tubing around a die...
 
So basically if it looks like a fancy dancy harbour freight then its gonna kink, but if it draws out the bend like my jd2 then its good to go.
 
That's a very general rule of thumb, yeah, just fro what I've seen before...
 
exhaust benders are called a 'center compression' bender which like rich said is kink city, you want either a rotary draw(jd2) or rotary compression (jd4)
 
For $1,000 I'd assume it would be a machine like you linked Jim. Sucks that'll be useless for my purpose. It was worth a shop to research.

I didn't see any new progress on the FJ buggy...so I figured I give you something to do Jim :flipoff2:

Jon, just curious, what type of bender are you using now?
 
There 2 kinds of exhaust benders.. one like Jim linked that pushs from the center to bend the tube.. that is why it crushes the steel

the other is called a manderal exhaust bender.. it pulls the tube threw the die like our Jd2 and pro tools benders.. but they are very pricy so if they are not far away would not hurt to go look and see which they have...

but i am willing to bet it is the kinker :)
 
His reply to my request for the brand:
It is a Huth bender, 3" capacity, very tight radius's your welcome to view it. It needs dies, but is digital control

I looked it up and found basicall what Jim posted. Looks like they have a similar die to what we use and then have two feet that push the tube around the radius.

They are pretty close so I'll go by and check it out anyways.
 
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