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i know exactly what you mean, but i’m saying that you should be more concerned with how you are going to bend a 1"ODX.125 wall tube without fucking up the finish. Are you using a tubing bender? Putting it in a vice? Etc.
Again, it also depends on the radius of the bend you are trying to make. If you’re attempting to make a zero inside radius bend, you can bet your ass it will crack on the outside radius.
The geometry of the whole part is important, not just the bend angle.
But honestly, just try it. If the bend radius is fairly large, i can’t imagine you will crack the finish.
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yea, i have a tubing bender…
here are pics… i got em all powdercoated and i guess my jig wasnt as perfect as i thought, ans some of them are SLIGHTLY off… whcih is lame so i gotta bend one side a couple degrees