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Old 04-19-2012, 10:46 AM
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ok Buggsy---
Jim sent me an email, and I email the pics to him. Geee---this uploading pics stresses me out. Send me an email and I'll email you the pics too.
Tom
Tom gave me permission to post his photos, which I'm doing here, along with his email text:






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Since posting with you and Jim Edwards the other day, I made a another little change, and can now get the flare to 1.5 inches from the aft part of the bend.
Bending aluminum with this bender is pretty easy, but 304 stainless is hard on the moving parts, especially the wiper die. I've ordered a little different (heavier duty) version from Spruce that I should have in a day or 2. I plan on making the same modifications, only 'prettier'.
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Old 04-19-2012, 04:11 PM
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Thanks Buggsy!
Tom---
PS----I recieved my new 364FHA06 bender in the mail today. I'll let everyone know how I like it.
Tom
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Old 04-19-2012, 05:23 PM
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Old 04-20-2012, 08:23 AM
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Smile Imperial 364FHA bender

I recieved my new 364FHA06 bender in the mail yesterday. MUCH heavier duty than the previous 470 bender that I modified. It is for bending 3/8 tubing only, but thats ok.
I modified it the same way as my 470, with an angle bracket to vise mount it, and shortened the step on the bend die, to move the flare AFT, towards the bend. The bender can now bend closer to the flare than usual, which is now 1.0 from the INSIDE of the bend, or 1.625 from the outside of the bend. For you guys installing an Andair valve and filter set up, this will help ALOT.

For 180* bends, the inside dimension is 1.625, and the outside is 2.312. It can bend pretty tight bends that are 180* apart at 2.125.
So far, the only real drawback is cost---about $85 from Spruce. But since I bend alot of 3/8 tubing anyway, its ok. A mandrel bender would be really nice---- but the cost is probably not worth the investment , along with a the laser coordinate scanner.
If Santa Claus is listening---------oh and a RV7A slider kit!
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Guys, I don't want to resurrect a thread from the dead... but I will anyway.

Today I started learning how to do the flares and bends to set up my FI pump & filter, but quickly found that the tools I had would not get the bend close enough to the end of the tube. I was scratching my head for a while, and figured I couldn't possibly be the first one to run into this. VAF to the rescue... in fifteen minutes I knew what needed to be done. An hour later and some serious heat from Mr. Dremel and I have a tubing bender that will do what I need it to do.

I told my wife, this kind of thing is why I send Doug a check every year.
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Old 11-25-2019, 10:02 AM
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Guys, I don't want to resurrect a thread from the dead... but I will anyway.

Today I started learning how to do the flares and bends to set up my FI pump & filter, but quickly found that the tools I had would not get the bend close enough to the end of the tube. I was scratching my head for a while, and figured I couldn't possibly be the first one to run into this. VAF to the rescue... in fifteen minutes I knew what needed to be done. An hour later and some serious heat from Mr. Dremel and I have a tubing bender that will do what I need it to do.

I told my wife, this kind of thing is why I send Doug a check every year.
I'm resurrecting this again. I'm doing the exact bend and can't flare the end connecting to the filter because it's too short.

All the pics and link in this thread don't work. Anyone have suggestions on how to do that tight bend and flare?
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Old 11-25-2019, 01:07 PM
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I just bent the 4 tubes for my 14A last week. I bought a $19 tube bender from Home Depot, Did some major cutting and grinding on it until it could make the correct bends close to the flair and then threw it away.
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Old 11-25-2019, 07:28 PM
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Allen, if you'll email me I'll send a pic of my 'old' hand bender. CNC bender made the old one obsolete!
Tom
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