How did you bent your aluminium tube (craddle)
How did you bent your aluminium tube (craddle)
There's no place around here that will bend my tube. A place I tried was saying they would need to put a chrome insert in the tube to prevent deformation that would cost over 1000$ to do because they didn't have it.
So those who have done the full craddle replacement, how did you bent your tube?
Thank you!
So those who have done the full craddle replacement, how did you bent your tube?
Thank you!
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Are you making Fun? I do work for a forging-heat treat facility. The project managers gave me some info on 6061. They said " That is soft material, you can bend it this way no problem. They even said you could put it in the bathtub with hot water only. Make your bends. Maybe your wife would say no. I did not tell mine on a trial run. Instead, I just brushed it a propane torch. I could still touch it with bare hands.
Compliment.........AlisoBob wrote:Thats a Hoon talking, right there.....cmotodad wrote:I just bent my cradles. Sand, wood plugs and a piece of 2in. sq. steel tube with a 90 in it, vice and a propane torch. Not sure of the daimeter of the 90 bend. It was laying around my garage. Took my son and I @ 20.min to do 2.
Do you have some pics ? I might try something myself this week...cmotodad wrote:I just bent my cradles. Sand, wood plugs and a piece of 2in. sq. steel tube with a 90 in it, vice and a propane torch. Not sure of the daimeter of the 90 bend. It was laying around my garage. Took my son and I @ 20.min to do 2.
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my tubing was bent using a 4 1/2" sq. die in what i think is a rototary bender, was bent about 70* degrees.
material used was 6061 t6 1" x 1" x .125" sq. round corner id/od tubing.
no heat, annealing was applied. bends are flat and smooth, no collapsing of the radius and no cracking or sign of metal fatigue.
material used was 6061 t6 1" x 1" x .125" sq. round corner id/od tubing.
no heat, annealing was applied. bends are flat and smooth, no collapsing of the radius and no cracking or sign of metal fatigue.
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