Thread: Pipe bender

been looking around for a pipe bender design , this one is basic but its looks effective . I want to bend gal. pipe , the 1" od

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ErSCmabAFg

Looks like hard work but effective. Could do with extension to table to keep bends parallel and built in gauge such as a larger ruler, to set lengths.

With that type of bender, you could do tube very easily, the bigger diameter and wall thickness the harder the work. If you've a tractor or hydraulic pump, you could fit a ram to make life easier???
Kryn

I've had a bender like that one for 3 decades. We used it in low volume production on 1" x 1.2 and 1.6mm wall ERW tube. It must have done 100,000 plus bends and is still going strong. It makes very neat bends with minimal narrowing of the tubes. We made various extensions and guides as Nev describes above, and with these it would hold dimensions between bends to a couple of mm, more than enough for the fabrication we were doing.

It's probably overkill for gal pipes though. There are simpler systems for that.

Graham.

When you do get a bender, make sure that the former is a close fit, some are 1-2 mm larger than the pipe/tube causing kinks or a sharp bend in the pipe, DAMHIKT
This is more common on hand/air operated hydraulic pipe benders, the ones that turn you into Popeye.
Kryn