Originally Posted by Ron22 Just what do you want to do with this machine? Have CNC control of just one bend or feed in the tube make a bend feed in some more and then another bend..
Ron |
Having CNC over the feed and rotation of the tube. Would need the ability to do more than one bend. I would think one die could slide in and bend, along with being able to slide to the left or right side of the tube unless chassy is made so previous bends would not stop the rotation of the tube so a single sided bending die could perform right and left side bend simply by rotating the tube. I would not be bending anything over 20inches long if that ever.
I assume dies could be made from a lathe and simply removing one size die and replacing for another size for the different tube OD's.