Tube Bender

Easy to use, works as described. Great price.

Bought it to bend some brass tubing to make a nice-looking throttle linkage on my girlfriend's classic Buick and it worked great. The piping can rotate in the bender so it is important to make sure you put the first bend in a table vice to keep everything else straight. Overall, I can't complain though, the price was right and my girlfriend loves how her carb linkage looks.

This tool works great if you're using this for its intended purpose. If you try to bend 3/8" stainless steel with a wall thickness of 0.065" you'll snap it into pieces. This is made out of cast aluminum of questionable quality. That being said, if you stick to break lines and tubing that is easier to bend (i.e. copper, copper/nickel, thin stainless) you shouldn't have any problem. Also I picked up the pieces of my broken bender, bolted it to an iron plate, and used a torch to heat the aforementioned stainless tubing orange hot, and it bent very easily. Learn from my mistakes and use heat to your advantage if you want to use this tool for jobs it wasn't built for, it'll save you a ton of money avoiding a $200 tubing bender. Just don't burn yourself.

Just what I wanted. On time too...

It does what it claims to do – bend tubes. The gauge on it is a good guide for getting close to the angle you want, but most tubes will spring back a little and you'll have to do a small final bend to get them perfect. I'm not knocking the bender, it's just physics. The handles could be a little longer – starting a bend on larger, harder tubing with them open at such a wide angle can be a little difficult.

They say it does 1/4", it didn't! It crimped. I guess I could fill with sand and tray again. Was hoping they were telling the truth.

EVERYONE I know calls this type of pipe bender "The Pipe Kinker" , (and with good reason). I've seen people use heat, move the piece a little at a time, or even try to bend it slowly, and that all still pales in comparison to just filling the tube with sand. Just use some duct tape one one end to seal off the tube. Then fill the tube with sand (the smaller the grains of sand the better)*. Then tape off the other end. *NOTE - Fill the tube with sand completely, then tap it on a table, or something, to pack the sand down (add more sand if needed). Most of the metal tubes you will be bending with this are "soft" metals, so there's no support for them to keep their shape; you'll just crush the tube and the air inside. The sand has nowhere to go, so it supports the walls of the tube, thus helping it keep its shape. Attached are pics showing the tight 180 degree bend (which I turned into yet another spout for my cats water fountain). The inside radius is about 1.5 inches.

Did a brake line on a 66 gto without and problems. Turned out the way I wanted it to.

Works as expected, good buy.

Für den Hobbybereich kann man diese Rohrbiege Maschine nehmen.

Does what it needs to do

Broke on second usage, returned for a full refund.

Bending copper tube