I was given a bunch of conduit, and wish to make round shapes from it. My dad suggested i buy the harbor freight tubing roller, i think mainly because he wants one. I’m okay with that, if i new tool gets my dad to come over and spend time in the garage with me that’s worth the admission.
But question, do any of you guys have one, is it worth a darn, and can you make easily replicated pieces by gauging the depth of the screw in the middle or another way?
Wait, when you buy tools you’re dad spends time with you? I’m not sure if that’s a win.
The radius of the finished rolled part is a non linear function of the size of tubing/top roller depth.
Long story short, there is not a one size fits all method without too much math to worry about.
I would make a cardboard or wooden template of the desired radius and keep checking it against the tubing as you progressively run it through the roller.
I have one. For what you're doing it should be perfectly serviceable. It's typical HF quality. I don't recall the details but there was some fiddling with fasteners and fit ups needed to get it to work reliably. It's much easier to operate with two people and with thicker material it's really a slow iterative process. For conduit it should be fine.
Been watching a lot of YouTube videos lately for home built shop tools. Lots of tubing rollers, some better than others and look easy enough to build for not a whole lotta dough.
APEowner said:I have one. For what you're doing it should be perfectly serviceable. It's typical HF quality. I don't recall the details but there was some fiddling with fasteners and fit ups needed to get it to work reliably. It's much easier to operate with two people and with thicker material it's really a slow iterative process. For conduit it should be fine.
Same here. It's okay for the price. Just don't even attempt to use it before you replace ALL the fasteners, because the ones it comes with are hot garbage. Works great for conduit. Less so for actual tubing.
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