tubing bender help

[number1cas]

Bend looks great, I think I know which unit I will be buying, Thanks. What notcher did you choose? any pics or links to it?

[racerone3]

This is the notcher I got https://www.jd2.com/p-62-tn-100.aspx I still haven't assembled it yet, but I will this afternoon. Spent a few hours this morning welding up stands for all the various other equipment that I've been vice griping to the wood stove for the last few years. Stands will get paint this afternoon and bolt it all together tomorrow.

[6X6]

Ahhh, I see. Thanks for the info, I now have a better idea of the true cost. It's a long way off from $300 LOL! I would like to see some 90 bends when you have a chance to post them.

#1, Tooling is almost always the cost. I've quickly learned that while a good lathe or mill or ironworker or whatever may not be cheap, the tooling is what'll put you in the poorhouse.

Brian, do they make any dies for angle iron, for things such as an angle iron belly band?

[racerone3]

I don't see any dies for angle iron. It would be pretty sweet to be able to bend it like that, but you would probably need a bunch of dies for all the different radius bends. I'm thinking an industrial strength shrinker/ stretcher would be the only possible way to avoid all the cutting and welding on a body band.

[6X6]

I don't see any dies for angle iron. It would be pretty sweet to be able to bend it like that, but you would probably need a bunch of dies for all the different radius bends. I'm thinking an industrial strength shrinker/ stretcher would be the only possible way to avoid all the cutting and welding on a body band.

OK, I'm not in the market yet, but am looking at Ideas. The Haasfeld from my first post does have these dies, it's just the only bender I have experience with, so I want to get an Idea what other machines will do all different types of bends in different steel stock.