Sick Pony: 74' Sport Resto Mod for Trail and Street

[scbronco]

keeping the bends in the same plane is harder than getting the angles right sometimes.. Looks like you've got it figured out.

i think the plane of bend of the machine can make that easier or more difficult. my bender is the got trikes version which is a vertical plane bender. i just make sure that the tube is always perpendicular to the floor to stay on plane. if your using a horizontal bender, its more difficult. however, you can fab up a little tool that will help. take a 4 in C-clamp and weld a peice of angle iron on the clamping pad of the c so that it "cups" the length of the tube. cut a reference mark in one end of the angle iron at point of the angle. next weld a peice of flat stock across the backbone of the C-clamp, making sure its parrelel to the screw of the clamp.

then you just have to draw a straight line down the length of the tube prior to bending, keep the pointer on the angle iron on that line as you bend, and use a magnetic degree finder on the flat stock to gauge movement...

maybe i should take some picks and post up later...