Vevor SWG-25 Pipe Bender - Unboxing, Review and Repair - 040

[@811mookie]

South Bend Heavy 10......Nice!

[@Millstone_Firewood]

Ha! Someone noticed! 1952 is the year it was built I believe. Still going strong but it needs to have new felts in the headstock bearings and a few other items of TLC. Thanks for watching!

[@ssprofirewood]

That is quite the process. Very impressive! Have a good weekend!

[@Millstone_Firewood]

Thanks! It was a bit more involved than I expected. Have a great weekend as well!

[@scod3908]

Uh oh, looks like they powder coated inside the bore, and you turned the shaft down?

[@Millstone_Firewood]

Nope. That was my first thought. That would have been an easy fix. But no, there was no powder coating inside the bore. The decision was, which part was easier to setup and I decided it was easier to put the shaft in the lathe then putting the handle on the milling machine.

[@scod3908]

@@Millstone_Firewoodinteresting, bore looks blue-green in the video on my monitor. I guess it missed the final machining stage on the bore. Mine was similar, but I ran a wire will on the drill thru the bore and it cleared out the blue-green coating then fit perfectly It's always pot-luck when buying these mainland chinese tools as to what you get

[@Millstone_Firewood]

There was the tiniest bit of overspray in the bore. Maybe that's what you see. Aside from this problem, I was pleasantly surprised at the quality. Had I actually spent money on this, I would not have been happy. Generally I try to buy American. Thanks for watching! I appreciate it!

[@scod3908]

@@Millstone_FirewoodI think I paid ~100USD delivered, worth every penny as you' say

[@harleydavidson4404]

How do you know what angle or degree that you're at

[@Millstone_Firewood]

You need to use a protractor or be very good at eyeballing it.

[@kathyern861]

One other option I think might work too - if you have an electrical conduit bender for the same sized pipe - then the "horseshoe" on the conduit bender has marks on it. You might be able to lay the conduit bender horseshoe on top of the bender horseshoe and transfer the marks to the bender 'shoe