[PSUBS-MAILIST] Tube Bending Tips/Advice

[Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles]

Hi Steve,        It's kind of an art, I've bent a number of odd stainless pieces, If it's just an arc it's not too difficult, if you have a more complex piece you may have to do it more than once.  Sometimes it gets to the point where you just have to start over if the piece ends up too mangled.  But yes a pattern piece can be helpful.  I end up looking for stationary structures that I can use as bending platforms.

Brian
 

--- personal_submersibles at psubs.org wrote:

From: Steve McQueen via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Tube Bending Tips/Advice
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 10:33:03 -0500

Getting ready to take some very straight SS tubing and bend it for installation.  Never bent tubing before but I have a small hand bender and an idea. I was thinking on using something rigid but something I could form/bend by hand (heavy wire?) and make a template to then bend the final piece against.

Looking for advice form those who have done this.

Thanks,
Steve
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