it's Friday fool and you need this tool
welcome back to another glorious episode
of it's Friday fool you need this tool
my name is Kyle Voss and every friday i bring
you a tool a tool that i use here in
this shop or that i featured on this
channel this week's tool is a must-have
for anybody looking to do too but work
roll bars tubing if you have or looking
to buy a tube bender to make bumpers and
roll bars and whatever it is you might
want to make you're going to need this
tool so I've highlighted a lot of rules
in the past having to do with to bending
a bit of tube not sure but is the tube
bender itself I did this digital
protractor so if you find your angles
inside the color or whatever it is that
you're working on one of the things
you're going to want to do when to
bending as you're going to want to make
multiple bands on the same piece of tube
and not necessarily on the same claim
that make sense so let me give you an
example of what I'm talking about we'll
just use this welding rod right here and
our model just pretended to the piece of
tube we're building a roll cage let's uh
let's build the front pillar bar that
comes up goes up the front pillar next
to the windshield and then turns and
comes down the top of the door but it's
a great example of something that you're
going to need to clock and put multiple
bins on that cube that are not on the
same plane so here's our Q V what i mean
by the same plane is we put a bin here
okay
we got our one bin there well the next
bend may not necessarily be on the same
plane right it may have to go up or at a
45 the front pillar bar is a prime
example of that so you have your bar
coming up off the floor comes up
straight okay Sam sitting in the car
comes up straight here to the bottom of
the windshield then it needs to turn you
put your one band in there with your cue
bender then it turns and come up the
pillar next to the windshield but if I'd
invent it again it's good it's got bend
right into the driver and that's not
what you want the next thing you want is
going to be this number right well you
how do you do that and how do you make
repeatable band because this is the
thing you're going to make one for the
driver's side and then you have to make
the exact mirror or opposite for the
passenger side and you want them to
match today's tools can help you do that
today's tool is the digital angle finder
mount digital anger angle angered
digital angle finder mount so basically
all this is is a billet piece of
aluminum made by JC machine and design
that accepts a digital angle finder
inside of it it has set screws on the
top the fastest thing down on this side
is where the actual tube goes your tube
just slides right in here like this you
tighten it down here once it's tight you
can see how back to Venus clock based on
the angle that it's showing you on this
angle finder in Christ the loss to yet
and you still with me so what you want
to do we chalk your tubing up in the
bender you put your angle finder on the
end you'd set it to zero he knows that
is your starting plane right your first
bin is going to be on zero
then what you do is when you determine
what your next band needs to be you will
clock that however many degrees you feel
like it needs to be clocked now there's
a lot of software out there that will
help you figure out this process so
let's not get tied up in the process of
figuring out how many degrees you need
to return how many degrees need to be
bent there's a lot of pieces of software
and videos and all that kind of stuff on
the internet that you can go find it
will help you with that we're just going
to focus on the tool itself today so
your first Bend is going to be 30
degrees you move 23 inches then you need
to clock this thing 20 degrees and make
your next bend that is where this tool
shun this is going to help you clock
your tubing as you're bending it the
great thing is is when it's time to go
do the other side you know that you just
need to clock that one the opposite but
the same amount of degrees hope that
makes sense guys but just just think of
it like this this thing looks straight
this is your starting piece of tubing
and it's in your Bender right now you've
got the digital angle finder mounted
back here at zero degrees your first
Bend goes here then you just clock the
tubing 23 degrees and then make another
bin right then that gives you your
offset bins anyways how does that make
sense to you I would think this thing
can actually just be used as a regular
angle finder if you needed to you just
need to find out the angle something you
could just lay it on whatever it is to
working on but the primary design behind
this is to be a tube d green d green
angle finder on this particular unit the
actual angle finder comes separate from
the billet piece I will drop some links
in a description for both of them
these angle finders aren't very
expensive can give on amazon thinking in
the harbor freight I believe they're
around 30 bucks all right guys there you
go this week's to the billet digital
angle finder mount guys this is a
must-have if you're going to be to work
or at least if you want to do to work
right you got to have one of these you
probably need one of these two I'll put
this Friday video right here as always
thank you for joining me I'm sure I'll
see you guys some more this week it's
Friday fool
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