Homemade manual square tube bender

[Frank S]

nice little sq tube bender now you just need a better mount but you knew that.
When I first saw your die stack I was thinking that you might have the center plate a little large in diameter but after seeing the tight radius it looks just about right.
For my hydraulic Hossfeld that I used to have I made a double die for 1" sq tube so I could bend 2 pieces at a time with a 1.75 outside bend radius I machined my die out of a single solid piece of stock with the center ribs at 1/3 the cross section of the tube. it worked great for over 10,000 bends