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Originally Posted by Bonzo
Over the last few months I have been giving some serious thought into buying a decent mandrel tube bender for fabricating exhaust parts.
As some of you know, decent tube benders don't come cheap but feel one would be a usefull investment for my humble workshop 
One aspect that is nagging away in the back of my mind is, where the devil can I find a source of coated mild steel & stainless exhaust tube !!??
Guessing that full lengths would be the most cost effective way to buy tube.
Tried a few internet searches but all I keep turning up are those infernal directory search engines 
Living so far out into the sticks puts me at a real dissadvantage when it comes to buying materials
If anyone knows of any exhaust tube supliers I would be pleased to hear about them |
We have a huth bender in the workshop, but it does not produce a nice bend its more like the bend you get on a production aftermaket exhaust system. it tends to throat the pipe a bit. Its ok for trucks and plant but i think for a manifold or the like your better off buying your bends in. My mates got a mandrel bender and its about 20 feet long and needs about 10 feet left clear in the front of it, trouble is the tooling costs a fortune and he has none for exhaust pipes.
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Bob