Welding Tank Cart

[youngnstudly]

I almost built a bottle cart just like yours (until I came across the storage shelf system that I used for my welding cart).

I requested some plans online to build a very similar bender to the one you have, but I'm not sure that I want to go through all the work to build it when my neighbor offered to let me use his bender. I think that upright design is a much better arrangement (for saving space) though. It looks like your bender allows you to produce some very nice projects! It's even better than you can produce your own dies. What type of steel did you use to make your homemade dies?

[everlastsupport]

We have built a lot of tools. But a bender has not been one. The dies always seem to put us off. Yours looks nice, vertical design is great too.

On the tanks, we have them on the backs of the carts or roll them until they need a refill, then we get a standard dolly, cap them and put them in the truck. They are not light, that is for sure.

[SeanMurphy265]

We have built a lot of tools. But a bender has not been one. The dies always seem to put us off.

Buy the dies and then get the bender!!!! I have a set of dies for my got trikes bender. Now I'm just like go ahead and get the pro-tools bender. Got Trikes is a nice bender but it's bear to move around.

[Kempy]

The dies are made of 6061-T651 Aluminum not steel they are not for production work but I have bent 1 inch solid stainless steel once 90 deg. with know problems you will be able to bend a few thousand bends with out damaging the aluminum. The one that http://www.mittlerbros.com/index.php...e-benders.html sell are aluminum.

I almost built a bottle cart just like yours (until I came across the storage shelf system that I used for my welding cart).

I requested some plans online to build a very similar bender to the one you have, but I'm not sure that I want to go through all the work to build it when my neighbor offered to let me use his bender. I think that upright design is a much better arrangement (for saving space) though. It looks like your bender allows you to produce some very nice projects! It's even better than you can produce your own dies. What type of steel did you use to make your homemade dies?

[youngnstudly]

The dies are made of 6061-T651 Aluminum not steel they are not for production work but I have bent 1 inch solid stainless steel once 90 deg. with know problems you will be able to bend a few thousand bends with out damaging the aluminum. The one that http://www.mittlerbros.com/index.php...e-benders.html sell are aluminum.

Wow, that's good to know! I never would have thought that, but obviously it works well enough for them to sell those dies like crazy! I would have no problem machining my own dies from aluminum, even with my little lathe. Maybe there's hope after all!

[Kempy]

This the die I made and the dim. If you need more PM me or reply.

Wow, that's good to know! I never would have thought that, but obviously it works well enough for them to sell those dies like crazy! I would have no problem machining my own dies from aluminum, even with my little lathe. Maybe there's hope after all!

[youngnstudly]

Thanks for the dimension detail on your die. I saved it so I have something to go off of if I decide later that I want to build the bender. I'm still thinking of making the dies from steel for bending larger diameters of tubing (like 1.5").