i have the same bender and it tried makeing a roll bar and the just colapsed it too. i need to try the sand thing too

 

http://www.jdsquared.com/

This is the type of tubing bender you need to make rollbars etc. As others have stated you can try sand but really you have a bender that is made for extremely thickwall tubing and not for exhaust tube bending.

Mark

 

Ya as Mark P said, that site you gave said schudele 40 minimum. Im guessing that sort of thick. I dont think your dumb or anything though, It would be sweet to have a pipe bender, but I wouldnt know what is good or bad. 10 bucks is a good deal on that.

 

Yeah thats a piping bender not a tubing bender.... You need thick walled crap.

Here build this.
http://www.blindchickenracing.com/To...bingbender.htm

 

Good for rollbars/frames, not so good for thin wall SS exhaust. I really like those benders and that's what I'll be getting sooner or later.

 

There you go rican now you just need to build yourself a rollbar to show off your bending/welding skills.

 

that thing was $10 for a reason, unless you are bending some that you want to look real shitty, those benders are worthless

 

You are right, for thin wall SS you need a mandrel bender.

Mark