Electric pipe benders
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Hardly ever use mine. I have the rothy one.
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That's a bit modern for you Dickie....Have you left the steam age?
Play your cards right Rouchie & I may do a video on my latest purchase, these bad boys;
http://www.fieldpiece.com/products/...manifold-with-micron-gauge/digital-manifolds/
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Rems one is good but doesnt work with our grade of copper in the uk. It ripples it like mad. You can use it but you have to buy table Y copper which is about twice the price...
Not true, I too have a REMS 110v copper tube bender & it works perfectly well on Table X copper tube.
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Mmmm..... Shexy! I saw one of those bad boys over at FSW. I'll stick with my nice simple Robinair gauges though...
Nice!!
Is that an attachment to a standard drill or something??
Or did you Macgyver it
http://www.virax.com/index.php/en/p...e/portable-battery-powered-bender-eurostem-ii
Yep. Or one very much like it. Back in the day we used a Hilmor 2" bender for 2" galvanised pipe. It would bend with ease (no ripples) and accuracy - it had to because the pipe ends were threaded, so the bend had to be spot on.
The cordless above is fascinating - does it pay for itself? i had no idea that such a tool existed.
Of course, i've done most of my plumbing in a place where no copper pipe bending is allowed. Union rules and union influence on the Plumbing Code - no bending, gas to be in galv or black pipe, one apprentice for every two tradeswomen/men, digging and clean up by union laborers only etc.
The cordless above is fascinating - does it pay for itself? i had no idea that such a tool existed.
Of course, i've done most of my plumbing in a place where no copper pipe bending is allowed. Union rules and union influence on the Plumbing Code - no bending, gas to be in galv or black pipe, one apprentice for every two tradeswomen/men, digging and clean up by union laborers only etc.
Ditto to ree above, it wasn't really my job, but as there were only 2 of us on maintenance we mucked in to get whatever job done. Bent all sizes up to the 2" and the similar one we had did it fairly easily IIRC, certainly did a good bend. BUT if you look down that page you'll see that the minimum wall thickness is 2.5mm. So it, and it's formers are for iron pipe. I'm not a plumber, but all the benders I've seen for thin wall copper have a former of some sort to support outside as well as inside the bend. I'm well out of date though.
Good luck with that mate, that's for bending steel pipe & yes I've one of them too.
For cold bending copper tube above 35mm, you need a ratchet bender & yes I've one of them too.
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