I happen to have gotten one of those HF benders a few years ago like and did not get a book jut go to the HF web site and send them an e-mal saying you got a bender but no manual and for me they just mailed it to me for the asking Bob HotAnvil Forge http://www.geocities.com/hotanvil http://members.tripod.com/hotanvil_forge (NEW SITE)