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Hello everyone, this is where you will find updates until I decide to start doing videos and meetings.
4-20-2023 Just purchased!!! Our first production machine!!!
The Bend-Tech Dragon A250!!! With a shipping weight of almost 2,000 pounds and a fully assembled length of 28 feet, it’s a beast of a machine and will be the start of our production line. The machine will be used for chassis production. It will mark the bend locations on the tube, cut the tubes ends to shape and length. It will do all this in a fraction of the time it takes a human, and with an accuracy tolerance of 0.01 inches! YouTube it! Its awesome! Link is on the main page.
1-22-24 , Well I have been busy. I have added a lot of smaller machine tools to our inventory and a couple of bigger ticket machines since my last update. We now have a plasma table up and running for cutting all kinds of parts, and our new tube bender is on order. The dragon is up and running and we now have more machines than we have space for, some are in storage so we have room in the shop to work. I have been looking at some more machines, but we simply don’t have room at this time for any more. We spent a day at the JD2 factory purchasing our Model 54 and accessories. We bent some tubing, and the Model 54 doesn’t even begin to strain, it’s a workhorse! JD2 really make some excellent machines and back them with great customer support!
2-28-24, JD2 The Model 54 is in the shop and bending tubes. It is really a precision machine that is a workhorse. We set the computer on what degree bend we want and hit the button and it bends it perfect every time. Nice smooth bends to whatever angle we need. This machine is by far the best investment I have made for the shop. It has worked perfectly since the first time we turned it on. So far the Model 54 appears to be superior to other manufacturers. Without a mandrel, the bends on thinner walled tube like .083 are very smooth without even a hint of the start of a wrinkle.
Here they are. The Dragon and the Model 54 finally sitting in the shop.
A couple calibration bends to get things dialed in. Now we just set the angle in the computer and we get exactly the angle bend we want, first time every time.
Here is a short clip of the Dragon and the Model 54 working together how it is supposed to work. In CAD the chassis is designed and the ends of each tube are coped to fit each other at the joints. The files are then sent to the machines and the Dragon marks the bend number, location, angle, rotation and cuts the copes on the tube ends and cuts them to length. The model 54 then uses the bend marks to locate the bend and bend the tube to the correct angle. After that it’s just over to the frame jig for assembly and welding.