Our homemade stainless tubing bender, which we built for bending 7/8″ diameter 304 stainless steel tubing (3/64″ wall thickness). We needed a tubing bender to make a custom spray dodger (and possibly also a bimini top) for our 20′ cat ketch sailboat. Cost was about $50 in materials and 6 hours of labor. About half of the $50 was spent on plywood and bolts, and the other half was for the 7/8″ round nose router bit. Much cheaper and more effective than any of the other options we explored.
Post time: Jun-28-2017