Ridgid 38033 Bender, Model 604, 1/4"

I'm always use the other guys that are way more expensive but I decided to buy my own set of benders instead of using my employers. I'm always used the other brand that's like five times as expensive these are really good the only thing I don't like is the stationary handle is at an angle so I guess there's more room for your hands when you get to 90°. I don't like that I wish it was straight so you can use it to level up the tube with it being at an angle it makes it more difficult to eyeball. I've been bending tubes for many many years so if I say it's a good Bender, it is.

The tubing bender is exactly what I expected. A very good product at a great price. The OEM vendor of the tubing and fittings, sells a bender exactly like this one for more than 3 times the price. This was a great deal!

I had bought one of those cheap $30 benders from the supply house to bend 1/4" stainless steel tubing, both soft and hard kind. It lasted about 100 bends before the pot metal broke. It also gave quite the workout on the hard pipe. I looked at the big box stores and all they had was the cheap kind I had already broken and electrician's conduit bender. Anyway, I went to Amazon and found this bender. I received it in a timely manner and after I opened the box, I knew I had a winner! I got this baby to work and it blew my socks off! It had a lot more leverage than the cheapy one and the rollers on it lowered the friction drastically. It is truly amazing how easy it is to bend the stainless steel now that I have this jewel! Highly recommend!

Great benders. Almost same design and just as good of quality as the swage benders for a quarter of the price.

This tool provided very good bends in 1/4" copper tubing. However, the radius of the bends is small, so it's not suitable for larger radius bends. I gave it 5 stars simply because it works as designed and is easy to use, but you get what you pay for - it's definitely not cheap.

I also have the 3/16" and 3/8" sizes of the 600 series benders and I really like all of them. They're easy to use and have nice long handles for good leverage bending stainless or 4130 tubing. The instructions are really clear on how to get the desired result with common bends. My only complaint is the country of origin. I would gladly spend an extra few bucks on a bender to get them made here in the USA instead of China.

As good as swagelok benders if not better except for one thing...you can use the handles on swagelok benders to align your next bend...with these you cannot...you have to be able to "eyeball" your alignment more so with these...but you can bend back to back or back to side bends quite a bit closer with the ridgid benders. 4.5 out of 5 easily...maybe 5 out of 5 if you have a liitle more experience with various brands of benders...

I've done a lot of 1//4" stainless tubing bending with the tools we have on hand in the lab. I finally got fed up with those light duty tools and bought this bender on my own dime. My only regret is that I did not get one sooner. This has saved me a lot of time, aggravation and quite a bit of on-the-job profanity. As I was told long ago, no one is sorry they bought too good a tool.

Ok