How to Bend Rectangular Tube WITHOUT A BENDER | 5 Window Coupe Subframe!

On this episode we are starting the 5 window coupe, with ideas to channel the Model A body 2-3” over the 1932 frame we need to fabricate a subframe. We take it back to basics to show how we created a 1 x 2” rectangle tubing sub rail that will follow the curves of the ‘32 frame. No bender? No problem.
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[@joecioe8566]

Nice work. The use of the sheet metal template was a nice idea. I would like to see more of this build especially attaching the body to this subframe.

[@bennettscustomsco]

Lots to come for sure!

[@matthoward923]

The first time I packed the tube with dry sand and use some home made die’s on my shop press. For slightly tighter bends I used a torch to heat up the tubing. Since then I made die’s for my jd2 bender out of multiple layers of 1/4 plate

[@paulblack2402]

Nice work Jordan, look foreward to the next instalment ! Well done.

[@murdoc6501]

Another great tutorial of the process! Don't know if you watch Iron Trap Garage, Matt has a similar technique for sub rails where he cuts and splices directly on the frame. You said it best, this is a labor intensive process, but that's what hot rodding is about when you want it done right. Can't wait to see more of this build! Go Bennetts Customs, keep moving forward! A-and just went to the merch store to help support!

[@kurtludwig6962]

Jordon great workmanship, detail and explanation something I enjoy from your video’s😊

[@bennettscustomsco]

Awesome, thank you Kurt!

[@bajeeburs]

Great video and background music.. I have a 5 window "30 coupe i'm going to build so this was a great inspiration to get moving on it! I'm glad Karl Fisher turned me on to you 🤘😎

[@daleking8529]

Great video! You guys make a great team! Take care

[@bennettscustomsco]

Thanks Dale!

[@markshearer1831]

Laser cut 3mm flat stock with similar to how you did the roadster floor but add a drop edge over the sides of the chassis rails given you intend to channel the body. Two reason the first being you save an 1" of head room in the body

[@williamowens2538]

Excellent video just what I needed

[@gregjobson4844]

Nice work again Jordan, the way you made the rails is about the only real option for a small or home workshop as the machinery required to form hollow sections properly is not cheap and would probably only do one plane anyway unless maybe CNC. It sounds like '24 is going to be a pretty busy year project wise... looking forward to them all .Cheers Greg

[@bennettscustomsco]

Thanks Greg! Yeah it’s going to be a big one forsure. Shut excited to see where it takes us as well

[@Codycreatesthings]

Hi mate, awesome work as usual , love the sound track in this one. I've bent body rails using a LPG blow torch and a tree fork in the 80's . I did fill the rails with sand to limit kinks. Either splicing or bending took about the same time i found.

[@bennettscustomsco]

That’s exactly what I was thinking of doing too. I’m not sure these will be concrete at the moment I’ve come up with other ideas too

[@60Imperial]

Great job mate, love this type of content, bring on the next one, cheers.

[@donaldmarty8445]

Just discovered your channel. Watched a few vids and am very impressed with the quality of your work AND your well equipped shop and how clean you keep it. Retired mechanical engineer in the US with a couple of old car projects in the works.

[@andyd2806]

Thanks Jordan, good job, looking forward to watching this progress.

[@ccbproductsmulti-bendaustr3200]

Superb work Jordan , great to watch 👍have done Kerf bending over the last 40yrs but not on car subframes or chassis Cheers Chris

[@jonathanbrogdon9067]

Exactly what im about to do to a model a coupe myself and what i was thinking on doing thanks for sharing!

[@thomaspollock4274]

🇨🇦 Another project to test your skill set. There might be more sophisticated ways of achieving your goal, but as stated the method is based on the resources available to you. Follow your own path.

[@bennettscustomsco]

Exactly! Thanks Tom

[@samperras]

Cut n splice works Good show

[@johnkranz4004]

Excellent work Jordan Very nice start it’s going to be nice

[@bennettscustomsco]

Thanks 👍

[@MoondyneJoe]

Excellent video Jordan, in Manipulating (grin) the metal as you did the uses are endless on a variety of applications with good music on or audiobook playing that is something I could really get my teeth into, and the finished product shows the extra steps that you or any fabricator is willing to go to, to craft the machines they create and to what level of standard they will do it. Can you please tell me how long in real time that fab work took to that point with the skill level you have, it is often hard to guestimate times with time lapse happening I would guess roughly 4.5 to 5 hours baring interruptions, it goes to show how quickly the hours of labour mount up when building a classic. Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺

[@MrSlingblade69]

I have a 330 Hemi with 3 deuces on a 31 chopped 4” solid black. Great choice I may add.

[@lowdollarhotrods2030]

I’ve used the tubing roller from harbor freight with homemade die using washers and black pipe. I think it works well for the same thing you just did.

[@bennettscustomsco]

I was thinking that would work!

[@jrehtil1494]

Great work.

[@clintonstevens1285]

great job

[@paulamoore7004]

My husband loves watches your channel from South Africa...where in Western Australia are you

[@JustinPaul1st]

Fellow South African

[@artiestaub2401]

A meat 2 much work 4 me, my 32 5 window i used 1/8 plate like your template, welded 1" strip down the side of the the rails. That helped me with the gap from the rails, and welding the body 2 it.

[@slicedbread9003]

This is going to be a great looking rod. I love the paint color. Are you going to change it? Also a Desoto rather than a Chrysler Hemi. Pretty neat. And your technique for curving the tube is something that any of us could do. Even with a hacksaw. Great video.

[@timr.3108]

One question I have always had is why is the new steel you are using always blue coated?

[@gregjobson4844]

In Australia RHS and SHS is available in either a unpainted or painted finish, blue painted is fairly common

[@bennettscustomsco]

Greg’s right. But seems to be special order to get it without the blue weld through primer

[@MVA6195]

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[@youtube-handle-are-a-joke]

I prefere to use a torch to shape my tubes, it works very well on long curves, on a sharp one it will kink so at that point I cut and weld as you did.

[@bennettscustomsco]

I may do the same to the other side to show a different process

[@youtube-handle-are-a-joke]

@@bennettscustomsco yeah not everybody is equiped like Cornfield. Eventhough I know how to do what you do, I enjoy your videos, there's always something to learn from somebody else, new ways to do things, new ideas... And I love your single seater it's what brought me here in the first place.

[@DarrylMaclean]

Would a cheap radius roller bender not be faster and a lot less work? Or just heat her up with the torches and giver a yank..... done it many times

[@EdwardDockery]

👍🏼👍🏼

[@dennisschickling2249]

Nice Video. #STAYSAFE #PHILLYPHILLY 🇺🇸

[@joell439]

👍👍

[@toddbader6104]

Who's adapter plate for the trans? Hot heads?

[@bennettscustomsco]

I believe so! Will confirm

[@Hellsatanx]

are you Australian? I'm detecting some sort of accent but I can't narrow it down lol. great content by the way :)

[@bennettscustomsco]

Canadian living in Aus!

[@loligagger85]

Nice work, but cutting and welding a square tube is NOT bending it, it is forming it into another shape. the definition of bending a 3d object is that one side must shrink and the other side must stretch. BUT you have NOT increased the outside of the bend thus you are forming it, NOT BENDING IT. click bait lol

[@chrisallen2005]

OK Mister know it all. Being that it is rectangular and not square does that change the fact that it is formed not bent?

[@loligagger85]

@@chrisallen2005 WHAT? that has nothing to do with what i said. the question is, did all sides experience a force (compression or stretching)? if not, its not bending, its forming. Pie cutting or sectioning is a very common way to form a complex shape with an object that normally would deform if bent. Round tube actually twists when you bend it, if you pie cut round tube or pipe its not being bent is it? Troll harder

[@garyfairbrother5532]

I feel so much better after this is made clearer…I was constantly conflicted by agonizing over not knowing whether he was really bending or just forming the rectangular tubing. Bless you! Now on to critiquing to death the next video.

[@barrysnell6775]

Nobody, and I mean *nobody* likes a pedant. 🙄

[@danothemano1]

You, sir, are probably the life of the party wherever you go.