How to bend this?

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Ok so after building and selling a few horseshoe pumpkins, I came acrossed a client that wants me to build a game out of horseshoes. So basically she wants like a bean bag toss, only where you throw a horseshoe bent in a perfect circle into Holes made out of Horseshoes welded into patterns. So I need to bend roughly a 2" circle out of a horseshoe any Ideas? I thought about heating it and bending it around a piece of pipe, will this work? Thanks in Advance Lincoln AC 225 1979 Miller bluestar 2E Smith and victor torches Campbell hausfeld 110 DC stick welder Hobart 135 mig Hobart 190 mig Hypertherm 30xp
Reply:Yes ,get pipe ,weld tab to it to attach horseshoe to ,heat horseshoe bend around pipe.
Reply:Are you trying to make the horseshoe circles 2" ID or 2" OD?If it's for 2" ID, then bending around pipe would work.  If 2" OD, you would have to bend the shoe around a 1/2" rod.  The shoes are usually 5/8" to 3/4" wide, double that for the diameter and you end up with about a 1/2" hole.
Reply:Heating and bending around a die (using a hammer) works very well for horseshoes.Dave J.Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ~George Bernard Shaw~ Syncro 350Invertec v250-sThermal Arc 161 and 300MM210DialarcTried being normal once, didn't take....I think it was a Tuesday.
Reply:I've got a bucket full of jigs and dies for bending rod and bar stock when blacksmithing.  Makes for more consistent results and is faster when you have to make a lot.
Reply:Originally Posted by shortfuseI've got a bucket full of jigs and dies for bending rod and bar stock when blacksmithing.  Makes for more consistent results and is faster when you have to make a lot.
Reply:Originally Posted by BonzooPost up some pictures. That type of excrement is lovely to review.........
Reply:Thanks for the help guys I will try to bend on piece of 2" pipe tomorrow. I will let u know how it goes.Lincoln AC 225 1979 Miller bluestar 2E Smith and victor torches Campbell hausfeld 110 DC stick welder Hobart 135 mig Hobart 190 mig Hypertherm 30xp
Reply:For dies the harbor freight bender has a nice assortment to choose from. It's expensive now $89.99 , but I bought it years ago for $40.00. The bender is handy too. http://www.harborfreight.com/compact-bender-38470.htmlAttachment 1529141
Reply:Get a bunch of 2" washers, put horse stickers all over them and call it a day. Er body loves stickers. "You can't out puke a buzzard"
Reply:Sounds like he's trying to bend this horseshoe on the "hard"  Not gonna happen with that harbor freight bender.   Never get it tight enough.  At least I couldn't do it with mine.  Lot's of heat was the only way.
Reply:Originally Posted by jagboy69Sounds like he's trying to bend this horseshoe on the "hard"  Not gonna happen with that harbor freight bender.   Never get it tight enough.  At least I couldn't do it with mine.  Lot's of heat was the only way.
Reply:Originally Posted by BonzooPost up some pictures. That type of excrement is lovely to review.........
Reply:Originally Posted by shortfuseHere are just a few, others are somewhere....in another bucket, maybe.
Reply:Originally Posted by shortfuseHere are just a few, others are somewhere....in another bucket, maybe.
Reply:Originally Posted by BD1For dies the harbor freight bender has a nice assortment to choose from. It's expensive now $89.99 , but I bought it years ago for $40.00. The bender is handy too. http://www.harborfreight.com/compact-bender-38470.htmlAttachment 1529141
Reply:Originally Posted by N2 WeldingHow do you load the material in the top three dies?
Reply:Originally Posted by bigbI've been looking at those HF benders and trying to come up with a reason I need one, I just can't. Maybe a round tubing bender I could use but still trying to find a reason for that flat stock bender.