I stumbled across these while doing research for my bender project. If this is a repost, sorry guys. Here are some plans you might be interested in:

http://www.metalwebnews.com/howto/tube-bender/tube-bender.html

http://www.metalwebnews.com/howto/tube-bender/IM000195a.jpg

http://www.metalwebnews.com/howto/tube-bender/how_to1.jpg

There is a whole writeup on the website I linked above.

yeah I had seen one like that before, I think it was called a drag racer tube bender or something like that. Seems like it would be limited on bending anything much more tha 90* I like several other designs a better like the www.gottrikes.com one or a standard JD2 or Pro tools 105. But the one you posted is another option that is much more compact and doesn't take up much room and uses a standard length jack so it does have some advantages over the bigger benders.

I know its been a while but any updates on this thing? Do you have any pics of projects you have done with it?

guidolyons,

You still in Leavenworth? I was stationed there a while back with the 7 oh nickel at the USDB.