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canopy bows

Postby Onex93 » Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:57 pm

Hello,

I've been struggling to get the canopy bows to adhere to the shape of my plywood templates. Does anyone have any guidance/ alternatives?

Thank you

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Re: canopy bows

Postby Mike53 » Mon Apr 03, 2017 7:21 pm

This is how I did it. http://www.onexmike.org/canopy.html
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Re: canopy bows

Postby thomasjones42 » Tue Apr 04, 2017 8:28 am

"I've been struggling to get the canopy bows to adhere to the shape of my plywood templates. Does anyone have any guidance/ alternatives?"

I finally gave it up and just bought a tubing bender.

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Re: canopy bows

Postby gcm52 » Tue Apr 04, 2017 10:38 am

thomasjones42 wrote:"I've been struggling to get the canopy bows to adhere to the shape of my plywood templates. Does anyone have any guidance/ alternatives?"

I finally gave it up and just bought a tubing bender.

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What did you buy? There seem to be a lot of options from cheap to expensive for tubing benders?
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Re: canopy bows

Postby tljones42 » Thu Apr 13, 2017 11:37 am

gcm52 wrote:
thomasjones42 wrote:"I've been struggling to get the canopy bows to adhere to the shape of my plywood templates. Does anyone have any guidance/ alternatives?"

I finally gave it up and just bought a tubing bender.

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What did you buy? There seem to be a lot of options from cheap to expensive for tubing benders?


I actually bought a conduit bender at the local hardware/electrical supply store. I have two tubing benders, neither of which are large enough to accomodate the canopy bows.
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Re: canopy bows

Postby sonex892. » Thu Apr 13, 2017 6:11 pm

If the Onex bows are similar to the Sonex that is big radius bends you shouldn't need a bender. All I did was screw a couple of wooden blocks onto a flat table a few inches apart and did like this bloke does bending heavy square tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO-OatK4HzI
As with all metal, will need to slightly overbend to allow for springback.
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Re: canopy bows

Postby DCASonex » Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:57 am

Did same as Steve, works fine. If concerned about kinking the tube, screw a 7/16" bolt in one end, fill FULL with sand, screw second bolt in other end. Be sure to allow about 6" tangent each end to cut off after bending. Assuming original A model, if not already doing so, push windscreen bow up as far as possible with supplied Lexan material. Makes for a bit more headroom and cleaner line.

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