MY take on well known Bender

**garage nut** · Jan 6, 2018, 11:06 PM

To hot to be out on the boat yesterday so started the bender I have have wanted to build for some time, but always had something more pressing to do.
Main body called for some 2.5" x 0.5" material. All I had in the garage was some 50 x 10mm stuff so decided that will do. Been lying in the garage for so long I can not even remember for what i bought it

so all it meant, I was going to build an 80% scale model

Worked out very nice as the pins to be used are 25/32" almost 20mm in what I can understand...Also not a standard size I keep, but 80% of that is 16mm and that i have lots of.

So here is the main body.

MY take on well known Bender-main-body.jpg

**ncollar** · Jan 7, 2018, 06:12 PM

Garage nut
I am watching you. By the way how is the hacksaw doing?
I enjoyed watching the R&D.
Nelson

**JD62** · Jan 7, 2018, 06:35 PM

Nice to hear its warm there it was -10* F here this morning

**garage nut** · Jan 20, 2018, 07:33 AM

The "Eye Pin Bending Dog" is done.

MY take on well known Bender-eye-pin-omp.jpg

**ncollar** · Jan 7, 2018, 07:36 PM

Yes, our weather puts a damper on a lot of things. It has been below 50° here for about 6 days and I am getting cabin fever. I got in my shop last week about 10 minutes and that was all I could stand. Florida is not this cold as a normal for this long. Where is the sunshine? Maybe someone could close the freezer door.
Nelson

**garage nut** · Jan 8, 2018, 10:42 AM

The saw is waiting on a more powerful power supply, but summer is here so I am pushing like hell to get my boat finished before the winter comes. so at this point in time I do a bit better planning and get my steel merchant to cut to size for me

**garage nut** · Jan 20, 2018, 08:14 PM

It took hours to make, that is a piece of 30 x 30 solid Bright mild steel, but I am very happy with the result.

Unless you have battled yourself you will never be able to explain to somebody the inner satisfaction as you remove the last bur and hold that workpiece in your hand and can say "I made that"

Thanks

**garage nut** · Jan 14, 2018, 04:52 AM

Today I made the "Eye Pin" according to the drawings I downloaded. A little different. Had to fit a grub screw as My 16mm drill decided to drill about 2/10 big. This is strange as I did drill several bigger and bigger pilot holes.

MY take on well known Bender-eye-pin.jpg

**garage nut** · May 1, 2018, 03:05 AM

Can not believe it is almost a year ago I started with this bender.

At least I know it works. Made my first burglar bars with it already.

It had no problem bending 12 x 12 square bar with out adding a long handle.

MY take on well known Bender-painted-1.jpg

Gave it a quick once over again with a rattle can just for the effect.

I will make more attachments as I need them, but for now it seems to bend what ever I want to.

MY take on well known Bender-first-attachments.jpg

**olderdan** · Jan 14, 2018, 01:07 PM

garage nut,
In my experience the final drill has to have some metal to remove otherwise it will not be guided by the cutting edges and start to wander and even go out of round.
Maybe use less steps, drills cannot work like reamers, I would say for a 16mm final drill leave around 4mm undersize, plenty of cutting oil and machine feed if poss.
If size is important try a test piece first. One downside to step drilling is that the outer lands of the drills will not last long.