VPT
11-18-2009, 06:14 PM
I got tired of fighting with my old cheap bead roller that could only roll 2.250" pipe and bigger. It was hard to get strait rolls with it, it was heavy, and just plain hard to work with.
So I built a new roller that does perfect strait rolls easily. It does perfect end spacing every time and can roll pipes down to 1". It is smaller, much much lighter, and just plain awesome! I did quite a few test pieces, some aluminum, mild steel, and stainless. The stainless piece pictured is thick .090" exhaust piping and it rolled it no problem. The small piece is a section of shift rod out of a honda that is also about .090" and also rolled without a problem. There has been many times that I could not roll smaller BOV piping and either had to weld a bead or find another way to keep hoses on in high boost cars. Now I should never have that problem again!
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/7320/beadroller001.jpg
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/2708/beadroller002.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8144/beadroller006.jpg
So I built a new roller that does perfect strait rolls easily. It does perfect end spacing every time and can roll pipes down to 1". It is smaller, much much lighter, and just plain awesome! I did quite a few test pieces, some aluminum, mild steel, and stainless. The stainless piece pictured is thick .090" exhaust piping and it rolled it no problem. The small piece is a section of shift rod out of a honda that is also about .090" and also rolled without a problem. There has been many times that I could not roll smaller BOV piping and either had to weld a bead or find another way to keep hoses on in high boost cars. Now I should never have that problem again!
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/7320/beadroller001.jpg
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/2708/beadroller002.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8144/beadroller006.jpg