Bending stainless steel tube without expensive tooling.

zebedee · Post by **zebedee** » Aug 19th, '20, 04:11

Demonstration of custom building a bimini too.

Even Keel · Post by **Even Keel** » Aug 20th, '20, 08:59

Great trick. I might try it for some aluminium fencing. Thanks

Furstin · Post by **Furstin** » Aug 20th, '20, 09:22

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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Tezza · Post by **Tezza** » Aug 20th, '20, 10:18

Watching home garden show on TV on Sunday and he used below to bend pipe. Interesting he poured sand into pipe and sealed first

Furstin · Post by **Furstin** » Aug 20th, '20, 10:37

Copper?

I'm not sure a plumbers pipe bender will stand up to stainless, probably pop the casting.

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Tezza · Post by **Tezza** » Aug 20th, '20, 10:47

Furstin wrote: ↑
Aug 20th, '20, 10:37
Copper?

I'm not sure a plumbers pipe bender will stand up to stainless, probably pop the casting.

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Good question . I think it was copper

JimJ · Post by **JimJ** » Aug 21st, '20, 00:03

probably pop the casting.

or your poofer valve

Harb · Post by **Harb** » Aug 26th, '20, 22:22

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

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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.

Furstin · Post by **Furstin** » Oct 6th, '20, 15:48

Can't see one that will do 7/8" pipe....

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Harb · Post by **Harb** » Oct 7th, '20, 22:20

Furstin wrote: ↑
Oct 6th, '20, 15:48
Can't see one that will do 7/8" pipe....

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You mean the red bender in the pic ?

I bought it from ebay to do the bends in the 3/8 fuel line.
For 7/8" or 1" I use the bender I got from auction that looks like this

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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.

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