Tube mitering

[sparky01]

What is the best way to mitre tubes for bicycle frames?

[vipermanz]

do you mean notching?? for a miter your best bet is a bandsaw or chopsaw






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[tubeman]

You need a tubing notcher. You can buy cheap ones at HF which is fine for hobby building. If you plan to manufacture bicycles then you will need a much more powerful notcher.

[Ries]

The cheap way to do it is a hole saw style notcher- HF, or maybe a step up to the old joint jigger- www.dalewilch.com
this style uses a hole saw. the holes saws wear out, but are easy to find.
Next step up goes up quite a bit in price- mittler bros and others make either milling machine style notchers, or belt sander style notchers- both run from 2 grand to 5 grand, but are designed for production work.
www.mittlerbros.com
like anything else, you gets what you pays for.

[Zobman]

Here a link for a free program for doing that:
http://www.ihpva.org/people/tstrike/building/tubemit.htm

[woof]

You need to look at theses sites:
http://metalgeek.com/cgi-system/php5.cgi/static/cope.pcgi

frameforum.net

[j13l]

May be: http://snip.awardspace.com/