[Mark Leasure]

Got my tube bender and some 4130 1-5/8” 0.83” wall tubing. I realized that the bender needs to be secured to the floor, as it takes a lot of torque to operate the bender, with a 3 foot extension handle. I researched it a little bit and ended up drilling the floor for some female 5/8” threaded inserts. Cool product, now I can mount the bender or whatever to the floor. It will come in handy in the future. The bender doesn’t like to bend this 0.083" wall thickness chromoly past 70 degrees without having some collapsing problems. I’m sure its operator error somehow. I worked around it, I’ll provide pictures later when I finish it up, hopefully this weekend! It was a whole process designing the front tube and how to bend everything correctly, the first try!