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16 Ton AIR Hydraulic Pipe Tube Bender Bending

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16 Ton AIR Hydraulic Pipe Tube Bender Bending

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-16 Ton AIR Hydraulic Pipe Tube Bender Bending.~ -Bends Virtually All Types Of Pipe Except Conduit.~ -Perfect for all types of automotive applications.

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Features

8 Cast Iron Shoes For 1/2"-3" Diameter Pipe
Top Rollers Adjust For Degree Of Bend
Includes A 16 Ton Air/ Manual Hydraulic Bottle Jack And 8 Bending Forms
Bends 1/2", 3/4",1",1-1/2",2",2-3/4", 2-1/2" and 3" pipes.
Adjust bending bar to 8-1/2", 11-7/16", 14-3/8", 17-1/4", 20-1/4" and 23-1/8".

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8 of 9 found the following review helpful:

Hydraulic Pipe Bender -- Piece of Junk! May 15, 2010 By David A. Twente "D20"
I am a retired high school Agricultural Mechanics teacher, with 31 years of experience of teaching welding and agricultural equipment fabrication. I have built, from scratch, hundreds of pieces of farm equipment, using a wide variety of equipment, including a hydraulic pipe bender. I know how it is done! I wanted to build a hay trailer at home, and had always wanted to have my own hydraulic pipe bender. I couldn't justify spending $2,500.00 on one like I had at my school shop. After reading and studying, I decided on purchasing this 16 Ton AIR Hydraulic Pipe tube bender. "Bends 1/2", 3/4",1",1-1/2",2",2-3/4", 2-1/2" and 3" pipes."

The package was shipped, and arrived exactly on time, as promised by Pro-Line Trading Corp. Because of its weight, it was shipped in two separate boxes, and thus delivered by two separate Fed-Ex trucks. The bender itself, had been repackaged in a mis-labeled box for some sort of a transmission jack. However, all of the parts were there, and except for some box damage done by Fed-Ex, the product was in good conditioin. This is where the good part ends.

There is a single sheet of paper giving a very brief diagram of how to assemble the product. There is no instruction manual, and nothing to show the user how to determine which holes to use for the rollers based on the size of pipe. The bender has 8 bending shoes, but only 6 holes for the rollers, so you sure can't assume that anything should match up. When bending large pipe, the jack barely has the necessary length of stroke to achieve a 90 degree bend, and there is no scale to indicate when you are getting close to the desired bend.

In their own words, "Bends Virtually All Types Of Pipe Except Conduit." Well I am bending brand new, 2.5" schedule 40 steel pipe, which fits into the parameters stated by the company. My first attempts were on some brand new, standard 1" sch. 40 black pipe. What a mess! There is no way this bender, using the correct shoe, could bend this pipe without the pipe failing and the bend forming a sharp kink, and not a nice round radius bend. I cleaned all of the paint off of the rollers, and oiled the rollers, adjusted the spacing on the rollers, and tried again. Nothing but failure resulted.

I hesitantly moved on to my 2.5" pipe bends, hoping that I would have more success. I cleaned all of the parts and attempted my first bend. It did bend the pipe, but caused a crushed spot on one side of the bend, as the shoe did not stay plumb on the jack as it extended. I soon discovered that the cast iron shoe plate that comes in contact with the jack, is not parallell to the bending shoe, thus causing an undesirable bend. It wasn't even close to right. My old tired bi-focaled eyes could see that it was not right without the use of a straight edge. I gently ground off nearly 1/8" of material from the one side of the shoe to "true it up". My plans called for 24 pieces of pipe cut 34" long, and bent at the 16" line from one end. I actually got it to bend 2 pieces of pipe that were relatively identical (only 22 more to go). The next two bends attempted resulted in the pipe kinking up and out of the bending shoe... more failure. At $3.02 per foot of pipe, I achieved 3 usable pieces out of a 21' section of pipe. That is a 42.8% success rate, which is unacceptable.

The one thing I can say about the advertising of this product, is that it does indeed, bend pipe. I did email Pro-Line and told them that I wasn't impressed. They stated that they only sell high quality tools, and that they check their products for quality before they put it into their sales catalog. Well, I defy the people from Pro-Line Trading to fabricate 24 pieces of pipe like I was trying to bend, so that they come out within 1/4" of tolerance, and a 100% successful bend rate (which I routinely achieved with high school students' projects). It can't be done! I told them, and I maintain my opinion, that the biggest problem here is that this product comes from CHINA. I should've known better than to expect anything of workable quality to come out of CHINA. DO NOT WASTE YOUR $$ ON THIS PRODUCT! Its not worth the effort, expense, and time to send it back. I guess I have a pretty good, 16T air/hydraulic jack for $249.99 + $110.88 shipping. I will be much more careful what I buy off of Amazon again.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

Kinky Oct 23, 2010 By C. Lupo "goshawk16"
The downfall of this bender is it uses a one-size-fits-all set of rollers rather than a machined set of shoes to pivot the bending pipe against. This leads to a dent on each side of your bend, no matter how much sand you use.
Also, the directions do not say which set of holes to use for which diameter of pipe, so get ready to do some testing before your first project. Save your money for a JD Squared.

screwed by pro-line Jan 06, 2012 By dkb airbrushing
get this one . i go order this bender from pro-line thru amazon . they take my order just fine ! take my money out of my account just fine ! 4 days later i get an email stating they ( pro-line ) is canceling my order for the bender .
ok ! i think they must be out of stock even thow they show there are some in stock at the time i placed the order .
i then go back on to amazon to reorder one from an other supplyer . what do i find ? that pro-line still has them listed for sale and in stock for shippment . and i can get one . but the price is not at the 350 dollars like when i looked 4 days ago it's now being listed for a higher price of 397 dollars .
so now i'm thinking the only reason my order was canceled was for the 50 dollars deferents !
to me as a business owner i think it's wrong to sell some one some thing and then after you sell it tell the customer we are canceling your order but you can reorder the same product right away for a much higher cost and then we will ship it right out to you .
nothing was on a back order ! i have more than enough money to cover the cost of 1000 of these tubing benders . the only reason they canecled my order was to have me order the thing again for a higher cost .
talk about a crap CO. to do business with . i'm very unhappy with amazon to support a CO. like pro-line for doing this to customer also . not only will i never buy any product under the pro-line name but i will not buy from amazon too for letting places do things like this to people . very unhappy about this !!!!!!

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