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Toymods Board Member I supported Toymods
Location: Turramurra, Sydney.
Registered: May 2002
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Re: stainless vs aluminium IC piping
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Thu, 01 April 2004 16:06

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www.are.com.au also have alloy mandrel bends (and are very helpful, I highly recommend them), but I'm gonna be seeing a guy soon who's started/ing up a business mandrel bending alloy pipes for intercoolers in the Eastern Creek area. He used to work for qantas so he's bent up a few alloy pipes in his time.
I've spent a fair bit of time watching alloy pipe being bent up at work, & they certainly have some intricate shaped pipes. The amount of scrap they go through is incredible, they'll use 5 or 6 metres of test pipe just to set up the bender, and it all gets chucked out afterwards!
Pity they don't do anything larger than 2", but at least that'll do for my turbo to 'cooler piping.
A CNC bender, now I'd like to see that!
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draven | Thu, 01 April 2004 12:46 |
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takai | Thu, 01 April 2004 12:51 |
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clubagreenie | Thu, 01 April 2004 13:01 |
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draven | Thu, 01 April 2004 13:03 |
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clubagreenie | Thu, 01 April 2004 13:06 |
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takai | Thu, 01 April 2004 13:10 |
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draven | Thu, 01 April 2004 13:10 |
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oldcorollas | Thu, 01 April 2004 15:01 |
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BigWorm | Thu, 01 April 2004 16:06 |
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Norbie | Thu, 01 April 2004 22:58 |
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Alainve | Thu, 01 April 2004 23:59 |
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Special Ed | Fri, 02 April 2004 05:29 |
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