The machining and fabricating thread (mills/lathes and more here)

[Sam-Q]

would you like any of the posts from the other machining thread moved over to here?

squeak: good to see another person into machining on here.

[MAGIC MAN]

call me lazy but i now have access to cnc machines so new billet parts here i come lol. although i will still enjoy getting down and dirty on the regular machines

[Frak]

hmmmmmmmm cnc :drool:

[corknose]

cnc is fun when doing 3d objects or something u can appreciate but 80% of the time its pretty shit. like production work im doing at the moment. i push the button sit down for 38mins open doors blow air take out debur put in other machine and push start wait 17mins and then debur again.

[Frak]

yeah for sure, production stuff would suck, bespoke stuff all the time would be good

[redsprinter]

hey guys,.

Has any body used a tube bender to make up your own exhuast? or even gone and made their own extractors? what would you guys use for exhaust systems and roll cages.

[takai]

Ive mainly made my exhausts out of mandrel bends, although im considering getting a simple tube bender like this:


For doing catbacks and cages with.

Currenly im looking at buying (and have bids on) a tube notcher like this one:

For cages and spaceframes.

[redsprinter]

yeah i was looking at the same sort of tube bending machine as above today.

a mate of mine has a cat back exhaust that i wouldnt mine trying to copy . playing with the idea since it look easier enough.

would the above be any good for making custom headers too?

[takai]

No, for making headers you really want to use mandrel bends. The bends are normally too tight to use a pipe bender, and you really do want the best flow you can there.

[Sam-Q]

I am wary of that tube notcher/fish mouth tool. While that one looks really tough I think it would take a fair bit or time and I would wonder how often hole-saws would need to be changed particularly with harder materials