Heavy duty pipe/ring roller

[MeJasonT]

Hi Mick, thanks for the input.
I was wondering how the cylinder might behave, when it was used in the old pipe bender it didn't seem to drop pressure but I guess i didn't pay much attention to it on the bender. Its kind of a go for broke type of mechanism when used on the bender.

I'm interested to see some pictures of your chain setup if you don't mind posing some.

I completed the design/build that I intended to build last night, it has not received any further mods yet as suggested by friends on our great homemade tool network. mainly Frank and yourself.

I'm rewiring the motor this morning as the cable was too short and then its time for the big test. Two scary things lie before me, posting a video on here if it works as i'm not much of a selfie type person and finding out it just cavitate's and does not actually drive the bar through. I will also have to get the inverter handbook out and set up dc braking as it is currently ramping down when it stops, I could end up with a metre of pipe through before it stops and I can change direction.

I'm confident it will work as there is not very much to impress me about the manual one pictured earlier in the post, not much technology to it.

Ill post back later with the results.
cheers Jason