Tube rolling question

[Traceman]

I currently have a Metal Pro tube bender which does great at bending tubes on a angle with a certain corner radius. What I am needing though is to get a tube roller so that it makes a 36" circle. My biggest die will only make a 12". what type of roller do I need and does anyone in the North Alabama area have one?

 

[Zrexxer]

You'll need something like this:

http://www.bifab.us/rollbender/m10.htm

 

[Jack Olsen]

Or go the hobbyist/cheap-guy route and try one of the Harbor Freight benders (about $120 if you find it on sale and then use a coupon).

 

[GeorgiaHybrid]

You can also call WhiteFab in B'ham if you have a bunch of it to do. A lot of the fabrication shops we work for use them on rolled beams, channels, tubes, angles and pipe.

 

[jsantoro]

Did you get the square dies from HF also? I've been waiting for a sale for the roller.
Jim

 

[Ign]

Did you get the square dies from HF also? I've been waiting for a sale for the roller.
Jim

Inexplicably HF only offers a .5" square die. Jack did something he tried to explain in another thread; I didn't follow it.

I'll be picking up a .5" square die set this weekend and opening it up to 1" or larger if possible on my lathe.

 

[Jack Olsen]

I bent the 2" swuare tubing using round dies. I had to make saw cuts every 1-1/2" in order for it to work.

Ign, would you like a 1/2" die set to practice on? I'm still looking to get mine widened out, and I've got no lathe.