Swagelok hand tube benders and ?!?!

[Austin]

I just picked up a 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" Swagelok hand tube benders from a pawn shop for hard fuel, oil & coolant lines etc. Came with a deburring tool and these other ... things.

Any idea what the handles and bar are for?

 

[ridenby]

Bending flat steel/alum into useful objects

 

[rockmup]

I have bent thousands of feet of SS tube with them, hands down my favorite for a manual bender.
Home made flat bar benders ?

 

[Twankie]

They look like hand made tubing "tweakers" for tweaking tubing / fine tuning after bending.

The bar looks like a part from my 1/2" swagelock bender iirc.

 

[cj3a]

No idea but someone cut up a $300 bender for the handles. The swage lock book that comes with the bender is very helpful.

 

[Big4x4ride]

May be a homemade bender for bending instrument tubing tray (thin angle with punched holes in it).

 

[Austin]

No idea but someone cut up a $300 bender for the handles

That’s what got me thinking that they had must be something because who would cut up a bender.

 

[JNHEscher]

Damn. Which pawn shop?

 

[Austin]

Damn. Which pawn shop?

Some place in AL, they had them on buya.com ….. which I just learned about and could be dangerous

 

[JNHEscher]

Some place in AL, they had them on buya.com ….. which I just learned about and could be dangerous

Damnit. Was hoping it was local to you. I'll be in the STL area soon and was gonna bring a wad of cash to the pawn shop

 

[Austin]

That whole site is nothing but pawn shops 😳

 

[Trevlaw]

If you've got a lathe and a mill you can rip off the imperial Eastman micro bender design like I did. Works pretty good for the copper nickel alloy brake tubing, probably not very good on anything harder to bend though.

It's basically a left handed bender though, so laying out measurements is backwards to a normal bender lol

 

[Austin]

If you've got a lathe and a mill you can rip off the imperial Eastman micro bender design like I did.

That's pretty cool idea!

 

[Chandler141]

I just picked up a 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" Swagelok hand tube benders from a pawn shop for hard fuel, oil & coolant lines etc. Came with a deburring tool and these other ... things.

Any idea what the handles and bar are for?

I’m a instrument fitter and I’m very familiar with those mysterious handles lol. Those are for bending tray that the tubing runs on. Those go for a pretty penny to the right person needing some. Hope this helps!

 

[Austin]

I’m an instrument fitter and I’m very familiar with those mysterious handles lol. Those are for bending tray that the tubing runs on. Those go for a pretty penny to the right person needing some. Hope this helps!

Bending tray? Got some pics by chance?

 

[PAToyota]

I'm guessing like this...

Tray Benders - Barker Support Systems LLC

Request A Quote Product Code: 04TB17SS Designed to bend tubing tray, both inside and outside angles, the safe way.

www.barkersupportsystems.com