[ddmckee54]

Don't worry about disappointing us, most of us have at LEAST one or more of those long term projects.

I'm guessing that you had the parts laser cut, is that expensive? A couple of years ago one of the fabrication outfits that I used to work with bought themselves an industrial laser. The presented everybody in the Engineering department at the plant where I was working with their own personalized laser cut and engraved Stainless Steel nametag for their desk, as a way of showing what they could now do.

It's REAL easy to screw up when you're doing multiple bends in a piece of tubing. Years ago I went through a LOT of SS hydraulic tubing when making repairs on hydraulic lines. You don't really notice that you got your bender out of alignment until a couple of bends later. You might want to clamp a reference block onto your tube someplace while you're bending it. That would give you a reference surface to check against when setting up the next bend. If you are doing in-plane bends like that, a couple of 3D printed jigs to hold the tubing and bender in the correct orientation might make things go a little easier.

Don