New stand awaiting its new home

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
millerkid519 said:
How did you bend the tube uniform like that? Tube bender? Or the good old marking your radius out and bend it to the rad.
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After trying a few times to get it perfect the old fashioned way of using trees, tires, jacks and notching. I took my template to the steel yard and they put it in a monster roller and made the curve almost perfect to my plywood template. Well worth the few bucks I should have done it in the first place it would have saved me lots of aggravation and 10 ft of steel I ruined
 
Ya it's a pain. I work with a machinist who was a blacksmith for 15 years so I have learned alot of little tricks.
I was thinking that you would have to build alot of stands to buy a roller big enough to do that lol
 
millerkid519 said:
Ya it's a pain. I work with a machinist who was a blacksmith for 15 years so I have learned alot of little tricks.
I was thinking that you would have to build alot of stands to buy a roller big enough to do that lol
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Yea. Definately. The yard only charged me 10 minutes or shop time. Less than $20 to roll one piece.
 
looks plenty strong to me... i usually dont even throw in the 45's u do lol... never had a problem with 1.5" racking.
 
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