Brake line bender tricks

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Inline brand 3/16 tube bender

Thought I would share some tricks that I couldn't find when searching...
You can bend vibration stress loops.. Basically you start off doing about a 45º rotate a little, 30º and so on till it naturally wants to coil around the handle. but about 30º is the most your going to bend at a time





While the small tube and a tight bend radius is way stiffer than wrapping/bending it around a 1.5 inch piece of pvc pipe or some can.

With the tube nut on, the closest you could make a bend 1.5" to the 0 mark



removed stock handle, found 2 3/8-24 nuts (probably from the 10 bolt rear axle backing plates) and welded them together, the bolt holding it to the die is smaller than 3/8, probably 5/16 which allow a little up and down to center the tube on the die.







basically shaves off .5 off the length between the tube nut and bend. all that's left to do is whip up a handle so I don't have to use a crescent wrench to hold the flats of the welded nuts / or a vice.

figured someone might find it useful, also doesn't damage the tool!
clint