# mandrel bender **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Automotive\ **Created:** [January 30, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mandrel-bender/131176 "2010-01-30T13:53:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Jedi\_Car\_Fan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Jedi\_Car\_Fan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jedi_Car_Fan)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mandrel-bender/131176/14 "2010-02-01T20:16:22Z")
> [@Confessions From A Former Enterprise Rental Salesman](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/confessions-from-a-former-enterprise-rental-salesman/25853/9): > > No one here will have a true mandrel that’s for sure, lol > As cheap ones run for about $20,000… :). Technically not mine but there is one sitting in my fathers shop here in Kitchener. Well technically, theirs two, along with a wire bender 😉 Edit, and to shed a little light on the subject in regards to kinking. That can partial be with thin wall material only and the thicker it gets you can at times get away without even using the mandrel and still get a perfect bend. But the kinking isn’t the only issue, when you bend the tubing you deform the round shape to a slight egg shape and when it comes to Roll Cages some inspectors will measure that deformity to see if its within tolerance. But the deformity is always greater on a manual, none mandrel bender because their is no mandrel on the inside following the bend as she goes… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mandrel-bender/131176)._