How I prep tubing

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Jeff L
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How I prep tubing

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I use this mainly to get Aluminum tubing ready for the buffer, but it works well to use to prep your tubing used for frames & whatnot.I like to clean up all the tubing before I work with it & this makes it easy.I had a bench top drill press laying around, so I fit it to a 6' section of stainless the same diameter as the original post.Put a live center in the table, & used a bow roller off a boat trailer cut it in half, ran a bolt through it & chucked it in the drill.Heres a pic with a length of tube chucked up.Hope someone will find this usefull.
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thats a real good idea ill be useing thatone and hows the bsa project comeing
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Dude...I used that thing alot.I just never thought much about it....then I thought maybe someone will use this idea.Builds goin slooow...ha
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amazing!....now why didn't I think of that :think:

Hope you get the build moving along again dude :pray:

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i sometimes use the lathe to clean the ends where im going to weld them but my lathe is small that would give more room
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Just a note....If you go as high as mine At 6' high the base is to small.(itll be real top heavy)You'll have to make it wider.
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thanks for the heads up id of crashed the dam thing
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