Carl's Cycle Supply Y-Pipe

[Rollo]

Bill,

Not really sure, as our conversation was during a judging seminar and then at his vendor spot in Wauseon and we kept getting interupted. Best thing I can say is to call him directly and get it straight from him. My guess is they are using a pipe bender and from what I can gather that is not the way the originals we made. They were made using a press and a die and that is the only way besides a lot of hand work to get them correct. I think the issue is the angles are too close together and you can't get the clamps set close enough to get all the bends correct. I know someone out there on this forum has done it this way and his work looked good but in reading his posts it took an lot of work. I really wish someone out there would do this the correct way and turn out one that fits and lines up properly but I guess that it is too expensive to create the die.

Tom (Rollo) Hardy
AMCA # 12766

[Bill Pedalino]

Thanks Rollo. There is a guy in the forum who heat-bent the Corso pipe using an internal spring as a template to hold the concentricity while bending. Great technique. From what he states, and it came out very well. I'll copy his technique if I can't find an accurate aftermarket piece. Another method is to place a vertical slice from the bottom of the pipe up past the pipe's centerline, tweak-in the correct bend and weld it up. But I like the first (non-destructuve) method better.

[Rollo]

Bill,

The first method you refer to was the same one I was refering to also, and as you stated looked pretty darn good but seems like an awful lot of work to get it right. I just can't understand why someone can't get it right when they go to all the trouble to make it in the first place. If some one did they would have more orders than they would know what to do with. Maybe that's it.

Tom (Rollo) Hardy
AMCA #12766