bender question

[wworks]

can a bench bender such as this one from harbor freight bend tubing for Example a rollcage http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=44094

or would this one work better the hydraulic pipe beder

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=35336

[Blacksmith]

The bench bender is out of the question. I have one and it works great on solid bar and round stock, but there is absolutely no side support (like a hickey or tubing bender) to prevent you from mashing the tubing flat whilst bending it. I belivee the piping bender suffers the same shortcoming, it relies on the relatively thick wall of pipe to help maintain its shape while being bent.

[Broccoli1]

As Blacksmith stated No on the bench bender and the Pipe bender is for Pipe.
You can look at Shop Outfitters to see what a parts bender will do and they also sell the Dies to turn the Parts bender in to a Tube bender, but still wouldn't be the bender for Rollcages.

http://www.shopoutfitters.com/index.html

http://vansantent.com/model_3_bender.htm

The JD ,or similar, is what you want for the Roll cage.

[AZCoyote]

You can use that bender for square tubing with a slight mod to one of the dies, but I wouldn't build a rollcage with it.

[uncrichie]

AZC, thats a pretty slick mod, I like it. Uncrichie...