Im looking to build a tube bender because its way cheaper and fairly easy but i cant seem to find dies that are that cheep plus the fact that i dont know how much they really cost, maybe there just that expensive. Im looking for a 1", 1.5", and 2"(not really worried about the radius). Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

sorry to tell you but dies are just expensive. i payed $170 for an 1.75 pro tools die on ebay and thats the cheapest that ive seen them for

 

ya i figured i looked at pro tools website and they seemed to be the cheapest plus they can hook you up with all the hardened shafts for the bender to.
thanks for the advice

 

The bender itself is the cheap part. The dies are what kill you.

 

one of my good friends is a machinist for blackhawk and it just clicked but you think it would be easy to machine one. They have multiple cnc machines and he is probably the best one in the shop for cad, but i dont want to make it a major ordeal for him. Any body know were i can the specs for dies to save him a step. Thanks