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Re: Cheap Tricks
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Originally Posted by A1971Blazer
I cheated a little on this one because I have a milling machine but I needed a tubing straightener and just didn't have the heart to pay $80.00 for a store bought one....
A piece of scrap aluminum plate and 6 patio door rollers ($22.00) from HomeDepot and it works just as good the store bought ones...
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Made it for 1/4" tubing first but I can just relocate one row of holes slightly closer for doing 3/16" tubing
Not fancy.......... but very functional. |
That's cool , we used to pull coiled tubing thru a 3' long stainless tube mounted to a table with the inside diameter the same as the outside diameter of the malleable tube we were working with , not as cool as your setup but it worked .
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