A little metal fabrication project

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TurboFinger

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Nice looking job! I'm kind of partial to Tacoma's as well.
I've got a bender from Northern tool that uses a hydraulic jack. It wouldn't be hard to put a cylinder and power pack on it though.

that's probably a pipe bender, not a tubing bender. there is a difference. i got my mine from t & j's diesel performance.

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Nice looking job! I'm kind of partial to Tacoma's as well.
I've got a bender from Northern tool that uses a hydraulic jack. It wouldn't be hard to put a cylinder and power pack on it though.

Thanks.
I used a harbor freight hand operated bender on my first set of bumpers. The trick is to keep the pipe from smashing. I tried everything including filling them with sand and welding caps on each end to make the bend. That helped but I never got the hang of it. Those type of benders bend from the middle of the bend. The jd2 and most other tube benders bend from the end of the die and wrap around it as it bends. It's a lot easier to calculate and mark your tube to start and end you bends.
 

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its nice to have the talent and tools to fabricate what you want or need, that way you dont have to buy some foreign made junk that doesnt fit and falls apart
 

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