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Old 06-21-2008, 04:38 PM
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Here you can see we had to use a lot of bends to get everything to line up.

A lot of people have emailed me wondering how to make head tubes. Well, this is how you do it. First you bend up some tubes on your CNC tube bender or just buy them. Take the bends and start cutting and fitting until you have an exhaust system. The black marks on the tubes are from a magic marker we use to orient the bends right. We then cut the tubes on a band saw and then use masking tape (believe it or not) to tape the bends together. Masking tape works really well to hold the tube in place. Just peel it back and tack weld the tube in place when you have it in the right position.

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