Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Steel Frame Conversion (SFC)
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gwcrim:
Great idea. How do I bend that pipe without kinking it?
sintax:
that might be tricky. You might look into filling the pipe full of some sort of material like sand, i recall reading somewhere about filling tube with sand before bending for some purpose.
Worth looking into though. I think you might just be better cutting it and making it right.
gwcrim:
My biggest issue is finding someone who can weld aluminum. No matter what I do I need either a bracket welded to the subframe and/or the silencer. I don't see any HUGE benefit into cutting up a $150 silencer.
It's not like I can buy stainless tubing bends at Walmart and use JB Weld to stick them together. :mrgreen:
Dutch-K5 Fan:
--- Quote from: gwcrim on January 28, 2009, 03:51:26 AM ---Great idea. How do I bend that pipe without kinking it?
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And what about a tube bender like this??
Dutch
mdw471:
--- Quote from: gwcrim on January 28, 2009, 05:28:04 AM ---My biggest issue is finding someone who can weld aluminum. No matter what I do I need either a bracket welded to the subframe and/or the silencer. I don't see any HUGE benefit into cutting up a $150 silencer.
It's not like I can buy stainless tubing bends at Walmart and use JB Weld to stick them together. :mrgreen:
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Often your local general aviation airport has 'a guy' that welds aluminum without thinking anything of it......no muss, no fuss, no drama, so usually reasonably priced ! :wink:
Mark
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