well welcome back to Steve Rob reviews today I'm gonna show you how to do Hickey these guys take a
look at this baby right here and these guys know what this is yeah this is just a well it's a pipe
bender a tube bender it's not too good for two but it's great for bending steel flat bar and just
just regular round steel or aluminum and this here has been well used the only thing I did different
to it is I made this little base on the bottom here so it fits in my vise I'm gonna show you
how this operates today and it is so well used you take a look at there at this joint right here and
yeah it's uh it's pretty well worn out you know there's a lot of slack in it but it does the job
and I showed in the past there about making bungee cords I'll put a link down below if you want to
see how that's well that's all done and the little ends now this is just an example here of how easy
it is to you know to make some tubing you know for the tubing for the bungee cords and make
your own ends on it or if you want to make your own hooks or anything like that this stuff here
is so cheap and you can make yourself a lot of different shapes that you like and do it yourself
I'm a big proponent of doing everything yourself saves me from going to the store at least you
made it yourself and you feel a lot better about doing it so here's another example here of just a
it's a regular bend and it's so easy to do take you down the bench here and I'll show you this
rig and I know I'm not too sure how much stuff even cost I didn't know what to call this thing
I bought mine many many many years ago and if you can tell by the shape you could probably
figure it out where you buy this kind of stuff let's get to it right now well this is the rig
right here inside device and you could see I've been welding on this and everything you know by
put stuff in here and bending it to a certain angle stick in another piece clamp it and then
weld it it's also good too so you can see how it fits in here now originally they wanted it
mounted like this so it would like go into like a tabletop or something well I wanted to be portable
so I can just stick it in my vise and that's why I put that piece on the bottom and it come with
all these little fittings here now this one here as you can see it's for a tube goes in there and
it's just flat on this side and this side bring me over to here you can see this how this fits
in here like this so if you've got like a piece of pipe you can put it in here and if it's just
flat bar well you put it in here like this and you can put like one of these on like this and
this will give you a sharp end and you flip it over on the other side and you can see how this
will give you a rounded Bend so I'll show you how this all works and it came with all these
different sizes and you just gotta you know match them up and figure out which one's for
which it's all demonstrate here I've been in a couple of pieces because I probably made about
40 punchy cord ends now with all different types of shapes on the end for whatever purpose I need
so let's get to it and I'll show you how this all works well I got pretty well zoomed in there and
all you do is you pick out whether you're need like a flat end and what I'm going to use is
this one here because this will fit in so I just put that in there and just take for instance you
could you can shape this to whatever side of your life Locker down now of course mine is you know
there's a lot of play in there you could see the play in that right so I gotta actually fix that
but it works fine I just put this on here like this and it's just a matter of just put and it
pushes so easy guys like I mean it's not hard at all and I just push it all out until it comes back
again and just touches like that and I'll take it for you here and there you go right there
it was that easy and it's that simple so let's go to try a piece and bend it so it's nice and
round because that one there's roughly a 45 so let's try a piece and bend it completely round
and that's these are the two styles i use for my bungee cords well what we'll do in this case
we'll take this one out we'll leave this piece on the end here because you know I am using a piece
of round stock and I'll take this one out I'll put this one in and put this one in and it is
a little on the tight side if you could actually see it all the way it's going in with everything
but yeah you just kind of put it in there till it's snug that's all you have to do is just put
until snug and the leverage on this is so easy you know it's not hard at all and all I'm doing
is just going around like this make it very easy to come all the way back around and there you go
right there now you don't have to go as far and it wouldn't be so tight in between here but just
depends on what you like and what's the reason why you're making that Bend so let's get on to a piece
of flat stock and I'll show you how easy it is to bend a piece of flat stock well we'll just bend
a piece of this is just aluminum but you could do steel or whatever I am going to show you a project
that I am coming up in the future for my camp and it involves steel not aluminum and I'll just show
you for interest here so you just take these ones off and you'll take this one off too because using
a piece of flat so you use this one here and this time its end up being in a sharp angle we're gonna
have it come like this so we'll bring this back over here I'll put this inside the vise or the
bender and just clamp her down and you can tell the distance that you have between here and here
you have to pick the right diameter so you could see how this one here a little bit different from
this one and I would pick that one and we'll just take a look at the bend and we'll see how easy it
is to bend guys there's no problem at all bending that like that and for a lot of times when you're
wanting to shape use the metal and you want it to be nice guys it's as easy as that and if you take
a look at that shape right there yeah that's not hard to do is it so I mean I'm gonna make a lot of
these something similar to that and I'm probably going to make thirty of them well I hope you like
that guys I mean it's so easy to make these type of things and guys I can come out here and within
no more than 15 minutes make at least twenty to thirty of whatever bends I want like this and I
just use this to come off with you know just your regular bolt cutter and it does a great job I take
it over to the grinder take all the burrs off why are we little bit and the way I go so I hope you
enjoyed this today and show you this a little bit of a metal bender guys I'm not too sure where you
can get this or anything but I imagine like Harbor Fate Harbor Freight princesa Auto they sell them
all over the place they're not really made that great but you know what for the price I paid
for it and I've abused this thing putting in way too big a piece of metal that you're supposed to
bend and but it's taken it so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel
before well you're welcome to subscribe come back again guys let's have some more fun Cheers