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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 11:16 AM
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Does anyone have a tool at home for bending up exhaust pipes and rollbars? Or does anyone know where I could buy the dies to fit the 30 ton press at the farm? I want to be able to make rollcages and I've spent a fortune at exhaust shops in the past 11 years.
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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 11:59 AM
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me and my friends build roll cages for off road trucks.

http://www.jd2.com/shop/

is what we use. it doesnt kink the pipe at all.
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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 02:08 PM
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JD2 is an amazing bender. But you can't really bend exhaust with it unless its 2" you would need a mandrel bender for that and those are crazy expansive. You can also download TubeBend from the JD2 website it is a pretty cool program.
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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 03:35 PM
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Excellent! Thanks guys!
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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 05:56 PM
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Princess Auto lol the red neck store for everything
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Old Jul 30, 2009 | 01:05 PM
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Princess sells tubing kinkers, not benders. Tried them before.
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