Bending stainless steel tube without expensive tooling.
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Bending stainless steel tube without expensive tooling.
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Re: Bending stainless steel tube without expensive tooling.
Wonder what the 90deg radius is you can get without flattening the inside.
I suspect routing out the board on bench to tube profile is important.
I had a muffler shop do some mandrel bends for me on tube, but larger diameter than 25mm, but could probably do it.
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I suspect routing out the board on bench to tube profile is important.
I had a muffler shop do some mandrel bends for me on tube, but larger diameter than 25mm, but could probably do it.
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Re: Bending stainless steel tube without expensive tooling.
Watching home garden show on TV on Sunday and he used below to bend pipe. Interesting he poured sand into pipe and sealed first
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Re: Bending stainless steel tube without expensive tooling.
Copper?
I'm not sure a plumbers pipe bender will stand up to stainless, probably pop the casting.
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I'm not sure a plumbers pipe bender will stand up to stainless, probably pop the casting.
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Re: Bending stainless steel tube without expensive tooling.
Good question . I think it was copper
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Re: Bending stainless steel tube without expensive tooling.
Too much hard work routing the groove in the wood block, I bought a second hand sparkies steel conduit bender from Greysonline auction for $9 + $3 fees . Sometimes they pop up on Gummies as well.
http://constructionmanuals.tpub.com/142 ... er-244.htm
The small copper benders are good for stainless as well. I used one of these eBay cheapies
to put all the bends in the 3/8" Stainless fuel line for the boat, the handle needed some help by pushing the pipe at the same time but considering I had to work on the floor to bend the 8mtrs+ pipe in different directions to follow the contour of the hull and floor it actually worked better then expected.
http://constructionmanuals.tpub.com/142 ... er-244.htm
The small copper benders are good for stainless as well. I used one of these eBay cheapies
to put all the bends in the 3/8" Stainless fuel line for the boat, the handle needed some help by pushing the pipe at the same time but considering I had to work on the floor to bend the 8mtrs+ pipe in different directions to follow the contour of the hull and floor it actually worked better then expected.
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Re: Bending stainless steel tube without expensive tooling.
You mean the red bender in the pic ?

For 7/8" or 1" I use the bender I got from auction that looks like this
You get the idea of the size of it and how to use it in the link above the red bender
and for stainless pipe it helps to get a longer extension handle.