These work on aluminum.

http://www.summitracing.com/search/P...ubing-Beaders/

Then of course the debate... spend $300 for this one or spend a little more and get one with a throat in case I decide to try rolling panels some day. I'm assuming this one can do tubing ends as well as handling panels?

http://www.baileighindustrial.com/me...r-br18M-24.php


Interesting little tools... but the smallest I'm doing is 1 3/4 and up to 4"... some stainless but mostly aluminum.

Here's a less expensive one by Jegs.

http://www.jegs.com/p/JEGS-Performan...23179/10002/-1

Anybody used one of these? Ship date of 8/31-- over a month so may not even be available.

If a bead roller is a possibility why not get this?
http://www.mittlerbros.com/index.php...eavy-duty.html

with this
http://www.mittlerbros.com/index.php...ad-roller.html

You will have a much more versatile set up as this will allow you to bead panels also. I ended up getting the 36 inch Mittler with the industrial motor and love it.

Back to the question that I need to answer on whether I would use it enough to justfy the $600 price tag for the roller and die set. Right now the only thing I would use it for the forseeable future is rolling the ends of tubing as I really don't do much sheet metal work. If that JEGS roller was available it would already be ordered. Probably going to end up with the Baleigh tubing roller...

Thanks for the info guys!

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