Have you tried filling the tubing with sand and plugging the ends before
bending?  It helps to maintain the inside diameter throughout the bending
process.  Or wrapping the outside with steel wire?  If anything like that is
possible,I'd think it'd be worth a try........

Mike B.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Stanhope" <surfmobile007@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: tube bumpers

>I posted the plans to the Tiico Group thinking id just buy a $65 HarborFr8
>pipe bender and MIG away untill i had an exact copy of the
>BullBars......turns out i need a hydrolic Mandrel bender, im still waiting
>for Harbor Freight to make one of those for $200...LOL:)....not holding my
>breath.
>
> Phil 84' Westy
>
>
> --- On Fri, 4/18/08, neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>> From: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
>> Subject: Re: tube bumpers
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Date: Friday, April 18, 2008, 2:09 AM
>> Hi.
>>
>> There are plans for "bigbullbar bumpers" on the
>> Tiico list.
>>
>> http://autos.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/tiico/photos/browse/b9e8
>>
>> (you need to sign up)
>>
>> I knew I saw them somewhere. Found them while looking for
>> other things.
>>
>> Neil.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Robert Adams
>> <oldmanbmxr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > I remember seeing a blueprint / plans for tube bumpers
>> >  somewhere on the net last year but cannot find them
>> >  now. Does anyone have the link or file saved ?
>> >
>> >  Thanks
>> >  Bob Adams
>> >  87 Syncro
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia -
>> "Jaco"
>>
>> http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
>> http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
>
>
>
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