If all you will be doing is 90 degree bends, then the HF bender will work fine.

Lots of discussion over on pirate about it. Here is a link in case you want to do some reading: Link to Pirate

Here are some pictures i took today, the shorter one is a bend done with a professional tube bender, the longer one (darker) was done with a 12 tone HF pipe bender that i got for 60.00 (on sale):



In this picture you can see the lines i drew on the tube to make multiple bends to make the 45 degrees. It takes patience and a little practice.


I just could not see spending 600.00 to purchase a professional bender with one die. If you are a professional, thats great because you will recoup the money you spend, but for me the HF works just fine.

Here is another link to a discussion on metal for cages, they actually built roll cages with the HF benders: Link

Here is a picture from that thread: