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ChrisR said:ALL pipe benders are awful in my opinion! I've used Hilmor, Monument, Record, Rothenberger. I think I dislike the Record one least, its handles are at least straight. The Roth one splits its rubber caps the very first time you put a handle end on the floor and it's harder to get pipe out once you've bent it, and its wobbly fromthe day 1.
kevplumb said:sand you are showing your age havent done that for at least 20 yr
I havent heard that since my father became my late father.ChrisR said:right angle doobries etc.
ChrisR said:Apart from the rough way they're all made, the design is pathetic - they're all the same. You can't set a stop for instance to do several identical bends or a right angle. And if you have to bend 22mm on a cold day, especially the not-quite-so-soft cheap pipe, a lot of users would say the handles are too short. An unfolding bit wouldn't take much to add., nor would keepers for the aluminium formers - which needn't be separate anyway.
Plenty of other things they could do too.
I'd willingly pay £200 for a bender which did what I wanted. I mean we pay a couple of thou to get the kit to make holes in walls, by the time you add all the bits up - 24v sds, mains sds, diamond dril & cores, right angle doobries etc.
ChrisR said:You can't set a stop for instance to do several identical bends or a right angle.
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