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Old 9th February 2013, 09:28 AM
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Hoping someone can help. I have bought a 12 t pipe bender off eBay to create my roll cage, I was assured it was capable of bending 50mm pipe with 2 to 3 mm wall but am finding that every time it kinks rather than smoothly bends the pipe. I have tried going from 2 to 3.2mm wall as I was told this may help, filling with sand and heating all to no evail. So I am hoping someone has had experience with these things and can offer some advice. The bender in question is eBay item no 170974868543.

Hope someone can help.
That bender is for bending water pipe. I have got a tubella hydraulic bender which works the same way and that will wrinkle any decent quality pipe that you put in it. Get a bit of water pipe or scaffold tube and it will bend it with no problems at all.

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