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Enco has a small 9x20 lathe (Model #893-1273 ... www.use-enco.com ). Or, similar JET, Grizzly, Lathemasters...etc. Small import lathe that will do 90% of your bike work. Can also do light/small milling with a Palmgren or similar milling adapter on the tool saddle. Handles most bike sized drill operations with the benefit of power feed when held on the tool saddle. Too many people see/hear of milling and can't understand that the typical...

A friend of mine owns a custom machine shop that makes EXTREMELY important and exacting parts such as those use in the Space Shuttle, large airplanes and satellites. He has been a machinist for 30+ years. He offered to give me advice between the Smithy 1324 Industrial machine and the Shopmaster Patriot. He looked at everything on the Smithy site and told me that it, for a 3 in 1 machine, looked pretty good and he could not find fault with...

you may have issues finding a die and a mandral for the size closest size would be 1 5/8" that,s a very common size as it,s used in dragracing . the wall thickness is odd as well .137" you can get .134" wall in DOM but not commomly stocked at least out my way and stay away from ERW if you want an accurate wall thickness , ERW is typically 10% thinner then what they list , DOM on the other hand is typically with in 0.001"...

Thanks Thanks for the suggestions. After talking to some places it is obvious that no one has tooling in metric dimensions. It seems that only the big guys have mandrel benders and their interest in bending two tubes is pretty limited. Woolf Aircraft Products near Detroit is willing to think about it - they are a fairly big production bending company. I learned lots more about bending heavy wall tubing on the Offroad Fabrication Network...