Bender

[dlane]

Anyone have/use one of these benders , anything I should know about them , things to look out for as far as a dealbreaker.
It’s not a hosfield I don’t think the price reflects that, what can I expect to be able to bend ,add says pipe ,I’m thinking strap also.
It’s not local to me my brother lives in that area and will get it for me , is there any thing he should look out for on it ?
Thanks
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/tls/d/pipe-bender-and-stands/6441448074.html

 

[benmychree]

It looks to me that all it will do is bend flat bar the "easy way", at least with the tooling pictured.

 

[dlane]

Was thinking ied cut the head off and mount it on a receiver hitch type under the welding table top , as I don’t want to bolt it to the floor. I think I could make pipe dies for it

 

[benmychree]

I note that your brag list says " tool many tool boxes full of stuff!" how could that be true??? In thinking more, the tooling would bend solid rounds and squares/ rectangles as well. You could look in Hossfeld's catalog and see what the pipe bending equipment looks like.

 

[jcp]

That's a Harbor Freight bender. I have one. It will do light (3/16ths flat and 1/2 or so round) with no trouble. Depends entirely on what you want to do. The only extra tooling available I know of is a scroll bender. Google it and a few utube vids come up.