This is really cool

FED 387 · 05-24-2012, 10:00 PM

3D CNC tubing bender---made in Japan---can handle 6-60MM or approx 1/4in to 2 3/8in diameter tubing---really neat the wave of the future is here now!!!

Ed Fernandez · 05-25-2012, 10:34 AM

Doesn't any of this stuff get thought of and built in the USA?Seems like we use everybody elses technology

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FED 387 · 05-25-2012, 11:38 AM

ED-actually there are several different companies making this same kind of machinery some can bend up to over 3 inches dia using pressures over 12000 pounds---its out there but very sophisticated and did I say EXPENSIVE??? like easily over a MILLION dollars per machine and up !!!!!---FED387

CycloneFE · 05-25-2012, 12:27 PM

I checked with co-workers who had been to our supplier (Aurora Cat), and they said that IS what they use. May not be the same brand, but that is it and their repeatablility is 99.9%. The level of accuracy is amazing, I know, I check them daily for accuracy.

tj310 · 05-26-2012, 10:05 AM

I saw a similar operation on TV " How it's made" they were forming coils for water heaters in Germany---Trevor

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FED 387 VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,422 Likes: 529 Liked 333 Times in 180 Posts	Re: This is really cool 3D CNC tubing bender---made in Japan---can handle 6-60MM or approx 1/4in to 2 3/8in diameter tubing---really neat the wave of the future is here now!!!

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Ed Fernandez Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: NOO JOISEY nexta NOO YAWK Posts: 5,879 Likes: 38 Liked 100 Times in 45 Posts	Re: This is really cool Doesn't any of this stuff get thought of and built in the USA?Seems like we use everybody elses technology 16 more to go.. __________________ Former NHRA #1945 Former IHRA #1945 T/SA

05-25-2012, 11:38 AM	#3
FED 387 VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,422 Likes: 529 Liked 333 Times in 180 Posts	Re: This is really cool ED-actually there are several different companies making this same kind of machinery some can bend up to over 3 inches dia using pressures over 12000 pounds---its out there but very sophisticated and did I say EXPENSIVE??? like easily over a MILLION dollars per machine and up !!!!!---FED387

05-25-2012, 12:27 PM	#4
CycloneFE Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Decatur Illinois Posts: 634 Likes: 0 Liked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: This is really cool I checked with co-workers who had been to our supplier (Aurora Cat), and they said that IS what they use. May not be the same brand, but that is it and their repeatablility is 99.9%. The level of accuracy is amazing, I know, I check them daily for accuracy. __________________ Steve Jackson

05-26-2012, 10:05 AM	#5
tj310 Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Dresden On. Canada Posts: 460 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: This is really cool I saw a similar operation on TV " How it's made" they were forming coils for water heaters in Germany---Trevor