4th February

Nice weather in the Azores the last days so spent time in the garden etc.  but did experiment with my pipe bender.  

It did not go well.  I bent some aluminum tube for a first test and it was fine.  Then I dragged my workbench around the workshop.  I didnt have enough power to bend the ss tube and my workbench  (which the pipe bender was clamped to)was too light.  Today I welded a plate on a 3m long steel square section (100x100) to mount the bender on and used a 2.5m long tube on the handle.  With the whole catastrophe fixed on a big trailer I managed to bend the tube with ease. 

It works fine but leaves a bit of a kink at the end of the bend.  Well I guess you get what you pay for.  It will pass the 10 foot test (looks fine from 10 feet away).

Also got a bit more primer down.