Wanting to find one of these. Got my bender going. Got my welder running. But tired of using a grinder and cut off wheel. So who has some recamendations?

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All I can tell you is the Harbor Freight one will last Maybe long enough to do one frame, if your lucky. Same as anything else, you get what you pay for. I use a lathe to notch my tube, works every time.

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mike, maybe I'm just tired and not thinking right, but how do you notch the tube with a lathe? I could see using a mill and the correct size holesaw working nicely, but I'm not sure how to do it on a lathe? I'm probably overthinking it.

Chuck up a 1 1/2" end mill in the chuck, I made a V-block that goes where the tool holder lives. Set the compound to the angle you want and have at it.

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jd2 tube notcher
http://cgi.ebay.com/JD2-Notch-Master-Tu ... 563617a915

I bought the harbor freight notcher an modified it to what I wanted.

Wow, with the shipping thats more then my bender!!

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Well this 1 here is $600. I bought my harbor freight for $50 and for that price I dont fell bad about modifying it how ever I like.

http://www.syncnotcher.com/purchase.html

Well the cutoff wheels work fine, lol. Just takes a while. I uste that tube miter program to draw it out and been real happy so far.

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like he said earlier harbor freight is junk but in this case i think their notcher is worth the 50 bucks. iv rebuilt my frame almost entirely twice now and it's still holding up.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=42324

I built a small stand for mine and use a hand drill instead of a drill press.

I recently bought a notcher from a local tool jober that looks like the Harbour frieght model. First thing I had to do was shim the vise 1/8" to line it up with the hole saw center. and correct the 90* base plate to 90*. It may be Chinese, but it does work pretty sweet.

Plasma cutter works pretty good in combo with my 1" burr in the die grinder.

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