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@Jadaharabi here are the pictures of the Wood Splitter/Tubing Bender we made up here at the shop that you were asking about.

Pictured Welder is what we did the welding work with.

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Tubing Bending Jig that sets on the wood splitter.
Can see by the Degree Wheel that the Red 1 1/2" Pipe was bent at 15 degrees.

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Bending Dies that we made up from raw stock.

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There you go, nice to be able to do your own work building the tools.
Then using the tools to build the Dune Buggies and Whatever else you can dream up.

(Now back to DartFreak75 . . . Dart Build Project)
 
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Yeah, im mot gonna derail this thread but i just moved and am stupid busy at the shop.
 
George Jets said:
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@Jadaharabi here are the pictures of the Wood Splitter/Tubing Bender we made up here at the shop that you were asking about.

Pictured Welder is what we did the welding work with.

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Tubing Bending Jig that sets on the wood splitter.
Can see by the Degree Wheel that the Red 1 1/2" Pipe was bent at 15 degrees.

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Bending Dies that we made up from raw stock.

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There you go, nice to be able to do your own work building the tools.
Then using the tools to build the Dune Buggies and Whatever else you can dream up.
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That is awesome man how did you machine out the dies? I'm assuming a milling machine?
 
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This was one of the things on my car that I just had to pay to get done correctly. At least with my intentions! LOL they're not honorable....
 
George Jets said:
OK
@Jadaharabi here are the pictures of the Wood Splitter/Tubing Bender we made up here at the shop that you were asking about.

Pictured Welder is what we did the welding work with.

View attachment 1715402557

Tubing Bending Jig that sets on the wood splitter.
Can see by the Degree Wheel that the Red 1 1/2" Pipe was bent at 15 degrees.

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Bending Dies that we made up from raw stock.

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View attachment 1715402560

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There you go, nice to be able to do your own work building the tools.
Then using the tools to build the Dune Buggies and Whatever else you can dream up.

(Now back to DartFreak75 . . . Dart Build Project)
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I would be interested in a detailed “how to” thread on this! Dad has a wood splitter he no longer uses and I have a project coming up in the future that will require quite a bit of tubing bending and this would be ideal!!
 
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That is awesome man how did you machine out the dies? I'm assuming a milling machine?
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OK here is how I did the Dies.
Cut the upper and lower plates out of flat stock using a torch and or a plazma cutter.

Then welded in the width flat stock strip. 1 1/2" for the 1 1/2" pipe and 1" for the 1" pipe.
Now here is where the good welding skills come in.

I laid in some nice corner beads with the welder to fill the roundness of the corners to fit the pipe. The weld beads laid in there really nice conforming to the corners making them round. Then finish ground them by hand with an angle grinder and a steel grinding thick disk. Finished up with a DA with 80 grit where I could, then hand sanded the rest 80 grit then 180 grit and they were ready to use.

So no I don't have an end milling machine, but I do have a great imagination . . .

They work just great, and they don't crush the corners on the bend of the pipe like the Exhaust Tubing bending machines do. Ends up looking like a mandrel bent pipe, without the expense of the mandrel bending machine and dies.
 
George Jets said:
OK here is how I did the Dies.
Cut the upper and lower plates out of flat stock using a torch and or a plazma cutter.

Then welded in the width flat stock strip. 1 1/2" for the 1 1/2" pipe and 1" for the 1" pipe.
Now here is where the good welding skills come in.

I laid in some nice corner beads with the welder to fill the roundness of the corners to fit the pipe. The weld beads laid in there really nice conforming to the corners making them round. Then finish ground them by hand with an angle grinder and a steel grinding thick disk. Finished up with a DA with 80 grit where I could, then hand sanded the rest 80 grit then 180 grit and they were ready to use.

So no I don't have an end milling machine, but I do have a great imagination . . .

They work just great, and they don't crush the corners on the bend of the pipe like the Exhaust Tubing bending machines do. Ends up looking like a mandrel bent pipe, without the expense of the mandrel bending machine and dies.
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That is amazing you are a inspiration lol. I love it when people do thing the diy way. I have a pretty good imagination when it comes to doing things on the cheap. One of the engineers here at work told me I should be an engineer after he seen some of my ideas for the equipment lol. Sometimes they work sometimes they dont. I made a homemade barrel vice for gunsmithing and it took me 3 times to come up with one that worked. In the long run it costed more than just buying a new one from midway. Lol but mine will last forever and will never wear out. And I made it on a 60 dollar harbor freight drill press. Its 2 pieces of 2x3 steel stock and I drilled holes thru it and threaded the bottom holes the drilled a big hole in the center and used aluminum round stock in various diameters for bushings to go around the barrel so the steel doesnt mar it up.
I also made an action wrench that doubles as my torsion bar remover haha
 
dartfreak75 said:
That is amazing you are a inspiration lol. I love it when people do thing the diy way. I have a pretty good imagination when it comes to doing things on the cheap. One of the engineers here at work told me I should be an engineer after he seen some of my ideas for the equipment lol. Sometimes they work sometimes they dont. I made a homemade barrel vice for gunsmithing and it took me 3 times to come up with one that worked. In the long run it costed more than just buying a new one from midway. Lol but mine will last forever and will never wear out. And I made it on a 60 dollar harbor freight drill press. Its 2 pieces of 2x3 steel stock and I drilled holes thru it and threaded the bottom holes the drilled a big hole in the center and used aluminum round stock in various diameters for bushings to go around the barrel so the steel doesnt mar it up.
I also made an action wrench that doubles as my torsion bar remover haha
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Yeah I am seeing you are pretty talented and the way you dig in and go to work on things. Yes you would make a good engineer, you are a good thinker. Our brains are the most powerful thing on this planet, find a way to put it to good use and you will have the world eating out of your hand.
 
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I would be interested in a detailed “how to” thread on this! Dad has a wood splitter he no longer uses and I have a project coming up in the future that will require quite a bit of tubing bending and this would be ideal!!
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Here would be a good place to start, Northern Tool tubing bender can be adapted over to work with the ram on your wood splitter.

I made my own version as I wanted to bend the pipes in a very specific way, stretching the outside radius of the the pipes for a smooth bend. VS crushing the inner radius of the bend like the Exhaust Bending machines do to get rid of the excess material on the inside radius of the turns.

I think back when we were building this stuff, we were "All In" on building these projects and extreamly motivated, tapping into the magic of the creative spirt. Motivated by cool things and having a great time, making magic happen. Lol . . .

Building those Dies was pretty unique, glad to be able to figure it out at the time.

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Can still split wood with the wood splitter too. Multi purpose machine, wood splitter/tubing bender.

Enjoy . . .

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Now back to DartFreak75
My Dart Swinger Project . .
 
Check out this gem of a picture my wife found this picture the other day. This was back in probably 2003 this was right after i painted it the first time.

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