The trick to getting a good bend without the pipe creasing, If you use the size the pipe won't fit into or at least the snuggest die. Bend slowly and if you bending Aluminum like me you need to heat it up to 600* or it will break. 400* will work for small bending. but heating it will also destroy the temper.. I will also tell you this is heavy duty even tho it looks weak. It takes a great deal and keeps on working. The dies are cast so try not to drop them they could break. all and all I am happy with this. I wanted the other style of bender but for the price this is a great bender.The one down fall to this is you have no way to check how far you are bending.so you might need to remove the part to check and rework the bends.
Surprised the Hubby with this. Not sure how it works but he was extremely happy with the ease of this machine. He's stretched out his bike, bending additional pipe, made a small gate to keep our dog out of an area, on and on. He's in the garage just about every day he gets home from work now. A little jealous but glad he's happy
My only dissatisfaction was that I sent two requests for information about the product before I placed the order and both were ignored, however all was forgiven because within 20 mins of this product arriving (earlier than expected) I had mounted it and successfully completed the first job.Very happy indeed.
It comes with a lot of different sized curved pieces for different sized pipes or metal rods, it’s not something I will use every day, but when time comes I will have it on hand, won’t need to borrow my friends, for me “it’s a just in case I need it” thing. Great purchase!!!
02ghw 
