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Quote Originally Posted by beansathome View Post
im really thinking about making my own rear bar and sliders i might invest in a cheep bender from supper cheep or something and give it a go. i have no problem wih welding and grinding i recon i couuld make them look prety.

Don't bother buying a cheap pipe bender, the dies don't work with the chinese pipe you are sold these days.
I have got one with reasonable dies I bought quite a few years ago you can use at the working bee
if you like.
It still doesn't do a nice bend on the pipe you get these days, it almost has to be mandrel bend to get a
nice radius.
Someone mentioned the price of dies that work and for a one off item not worth it. IMHO.
im not to fussed on the perfact looking bend all i want be stronger then the standard side step . i hope i can make it to the working bee all i want to do is get the bends in it not build them i can do that part at home
but i think this should be a seprate day as this does sound like a big job if to many people want to get on the pipe bender