canopy bows
Posted:
Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:57 pmby Onex93
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
Onex93
Re: canopy bows
Posted:
Tue Apr 04, 2017 8:28 amby thomasjones42
"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.
Tom Jones
Onex 0133
Re: canopy bows
Posted:
Tue Apr 04, 2017 10:38 amby gcm52
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.
Tom Jones
Onex 0133
What did you buy? There seem to be a lot of options from cheap to expensive for tubing benders?
Re: canopy bows
Posted:
Thu Apr 13, 2017 11:37 amby tljones42
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.
Tom Jones
Onex 0133
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.
Re: canopy bows
Posted:
Thu Apr 13, 2017 6:11 pmby sonex892.
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-OatK4HzIAs with all metal, will need to slightly overbend to allow for springback.
Steve
Sonex 892
Re: canopy bows
Posted:
Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:57 amby DCASonex
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.
David A.