What new tools have you got lately?

[Camar068]

Got the rags. In from amaswan. Hung a bucket on the wall for them.

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[Snoots]

That's a pipe bender,or a tubing crusher. You will want to watch lots of you tube videos and read lots of people's posts for work arounds before you try using that to bend tubing.

I've been told that you can pack the tube with wet sand and you're less likely to crush it at the bend.
But WTF do I know. Never tried it.

 

[WFarm]

I've been told that you can pack the tube with wet sand and you're less likely to crush it at the bend.
But WTF do I know. Never tried it.

A better option is to pack the tubing with salt, not sand. Tape one end closed, fill the tube with salt and tape that end closed.

After bending, take the tape off and knock the salt out. I had to soak mine in water to dissolve the salt packed into bends, then blew the lines out with air. Flushed it with water and blew it out again.

As salt will dissolve in water where sand does not, you have much less risk of introducing sand into whatever system the lines are for.

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[Ricko1966]

I've been told that you can pack the tube with wet sand and you're less likely to crush it at the bend.
But WTF do I know. Never tried it.

Pipe and tubing are measured differently so you need to modify the dies to fit tubing. And the pack with sand and make a clamp for the die to hold the middle of the bend in place so it doesn't kink. The follower rollers need to be remade with pieces of split lengthwise tubing. Lots of other tricks I probably haven't seen yet