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“The tube bender was built in the ’50s and used a Model T rearend and transmission. Somebody found the big gear and matched it up to a small gear and put it on a reduction off an electric motor,” Robby Robison says. “Okie Adams built that tube bender,” Lukens adds. It still works but it won’t build legal tubing. It has to be 0.134-inch wall seamless tubing. It could only bend 0.125-inch welded-seam tubing, which is not legal for today’s cages. We built a lot of rollcages with that bender. It was here when I came here in 1968.” (The late-Carl “Okie” Adams was not only noted for building his dropped axles at Blair’s he made banjos for the likes of Roy Clark.) View Related Article
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