Building my rollcage

Paulmitchell1984 said:

looking good, keep me posted about the cage mounts bracket things...i like how youve bent the aerial to match cage lol

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lol yeah as Ian says cost me a lot of tube to match the angle

As soon as I here from Graham I"ll let you know

Tony S said:

NICE but i see the towel rail has disapeared. Has someone pinched it? (hmm would'nt of thought so) Aha I know you came out out off the towel closset and now feel ashamed. DON'T BE SHY PUT IT BACK ON (no one will tell anyone).

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Towel rail has gone as I can clip the winch hook to the cage now!

GreenHornet said:

That looks sweet dude. Even better without the towel rail.

Paul,
Took us ages to bend the cage to suit the aerial lol

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Couldn't have done it without you matey

You're going to have to update the avatar picture now!

Excellent job there mate, would love to be able to bend tubing like that, as wanting to make a new front and rear bumper, but my bender seems to stretch the tubing, esp when making a right angle bend, so its not round anymore - if that makes sense...

I have one of these...



Was ok for the expedition racks etc, but not for anything bigger...unless I am doing something wrong (have tried filling the tubes with sand, but that only resulted in a huge sandy mess)

GreenHornet said:

You're going to have to update the avatar picture now!

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will sort that once the rest of the cage is done!

StuRox said:

Excellent job there mate, would love to be able to bend tubing like that, as wanting to make a new front and rear bumper, but my bender seems to stretch the tubing, esp when making a right angle bend, so its not round anymore - if that makes sense...

I have one of these...

Was ok for the expedition racks etc, but not for anything bigger...unless I am doing something wrong (have tried filling the tubes with sand, but that only resulted in a huge sandy mess)

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Cheers


Spoke to me mate about using that type of bender and all he did was take the ****,
He said its fine for small stuff etc but as you have found out they aren't any good for bigger stuff as it just flattens the bend, if it was me and didn't have access to me mates tool (LOL) then I'd either buy the bends ready done sleeve and weld or just pay out and them done by a pro but hate not doing stuff myself.

you can make cages using one of them, you need the right former (mandril) or you will get kinks, made 2 roll cages and my roof rack with mine so far, tried initially like you with sand/water packing it etc and it wouldnt work.

Found mine was fine when I built my rack, used 22mm tubing with 3mm wall, and bent it all fine, just when I try bigger stuff it flattens the bends.

What mandril do you have, as I have about 6 of them, largest one fits a 2.5" diameter pipe (I think) from memory.

Even tried loads of grease etc to help the rollers, but think I need some sort of clamping unit to stop the pipe coming up and out of the mandril.

PS - sorry if I am hi-jacking your thread

It was a baileigh mandrel tube bender so the tube is supported both sides the whole bend

Pics please

this is it

Todays little bit of progress





mounting point off rear bumper made up from 6mm plate and some 3.6mm wall tube then bolted through the bumper then bolted through the tube as per pics





Its taken almost all the flex out of the cage and bumper already so should be to solid once another 12 meters of tube are added in

But the main reason for fitting rear hoop today was so I can collect the rest of the tube tomorrow,
So friday I will cut the tube to length and notch it ready for welding, then ill see if it needs any extra bracing for the rear bumper to chassis

Looking very good, nice garage too

getting there what are the bumper mopunts like, not sure id trust standard mounts attached to roll cage in a roll over personally.

P412KER said:

Looking very good, nice garage too

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Cheers matey!

Paulmitchell1984 said:

getting there what are the bumper mopunts like, not sure id trust standard mounts attached to roll cage in a roll over personally.

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Slower than I would like but yeah not much left to do really,
The rear cross member is totally rust free! It's got the reinforcing for the NATO hitch as well as the 2 bolts for bumper mounting but will see how it goes as I've got some 75mm x75mm x 3.2mm box that I can add from chassis to bumper ends if need be to reinforce it all

Almost there now, just need to pull it all apart to fully weld it then a quick paint up and it done







have added a loop for the winch hook



Will tag it to the B pillar also I think just to add some extra strength

Will add a cb aerial mounting but not sure if I should have it on the roof or on the back edge(down 1 side) of the rear hoop?

Looking sweet : ) try and keep spring at bottom of aerial below roof then should never break : ) hopefully.

Looks good but won't it just bend if you roll over without any diagnal support, just a thought

Cheers
Nah it"shouldn't" but thats part of the reason to tag it to the B pillar to help reduce any twist

I put my cb aerial on my back door next to spare wheel with a body mount. Seems to work spot on and well out the way. Got a big springer,2 foot still sticks up above roof.

You like your toys dont you lol, sure ive seen your saph before? you on PF too?

MPfive said:

I put my cb aerial on my back door next to spare wheel with a body mount. Seems to work spot on and well out the way. Got a big springer,2 foot still sticks up above roof.

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Yeah think I'll add a tab of metal and bolt a pin mount on tthe rear hoop should help stop it being ripped off,

P412KER said:

You like your toys dont you lol, sure ive seen your saph before? you on PF too?

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gotta have toys mate!! Yeah I'm on pf,I'm quite surprised how many users from pf are on here as well