For the jd type? Yeah loads of dies. The profile isn’t round though, it’s slightly oval. This keeps the tubes round, somehow.
For bending 6mm, 8mm 10mm & 12mm plus 1/4", 5/16", 3/8" and 1/2" diameter tubes (along with solid Mild Steel and Stainless Steel round bars) I now use Ridgid hand benders. For 1/2" and above I use my JD2 M3 Bender which has a pin-on hydraulic ram so I can convert from manual to hydraulic bending in about 15 seconds without the need to use any tools. The single phase Hydraulic powerpack was originally from a car lift and it does my job admirably.
Before I turned to using the ridged hand benders to cover the sizes less than I had dies for in my JD2, I did buy a Baileigh RDB 25 bender kit which turned out to be a Chinese generic piece of crap, and Bailleigh would not stand by it, by either replacing it or refunding me.
Here are some videos of my direct experience with this kit:
1) Introduction to My experience of the Baileigh RBD 25 bender.
2) My experience of the Baileigh RBD 25 bender in 1/2 inch ERW 16 gauge
3) My experience of the Baileigh RBD 25 bender in 5/8 inch ERW 16 gauge
4) My experience of the Baileigh RBD 25 bender in 3/4 inch ERW 16 gauge
5) My experience of the Baileigh RBD 25 bender in 7/8 inch ERW 14 gauge
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I wouldn't mind a £65 one needing a bit of fettling, but I'd expect one costing £200+ to be working fine out of the box.
Not that I'd spend this much, but I wonder what the quality control is like on their RDB-050 model (£665+VAT)? I'd be mightily hacked-off if that wasn't up to scratch.
There is also this one.That's got me rooting around and I found the Chopper Handbook bender plans are back up.
http://chopperhandbook.com/bender.htm
So I immediately downloaded them for future use.
If they disappear again, shoot me a message and I'll put them up on Mediafire.
But with most of these dies are the costly bit.
A lot of the Baleigh stuff is rebrands from other manufacturers, so you do need to watch what you're buying, they're just rebranded chinese jobs.
They've just lost another prospective customer because of that disgraceful behaviour.I got suckered in by Bailiegh into believing how good this less expensive set was. I had used one of their 3 phase bending machines at a place I worked, alongside a CNC Tubela bender. What really galled me was Bailiegh not believing me with the rep say xxx number of units sold into industry no issues reported, you must be doing it wrong, etc. which is why I originally made the vids to show them how bad it was...…….. and they just cut me of completely, no support, no replacement, no refund. it dragged on for almost a year before I decided to cut my losses and get rid.