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Old 03-12-2012, 10:18 PM
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Well after waiting on a fab. shop for over a month (calling nearly daily) to bend my new A-arms tubes- I decided to do it myself!!! I bought a 1" conduit bender and went to work. I made a mock-up one first to make sure I had a means to complete them and they'd work without the "U" bend. As it turns out I got lucky when checking with a recycle/salvage yard for 1" x .065/16 gauge tubing before buying some from a steel supplier. I bought 6pcs. x 24' long for $40.(had some surface rust) A single 20' piece from the steel yard was $67. I'm going back to get the balance of what they had since it was soooo cheap. I meant to take pic's through the whole process and got started and forgot. Here's some pic's of the tail end of the fabricating. I still have to weld in the bungs & paint.
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