How to bend
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Pipe bender | bend copper pipe
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pipe bender is a useful piece of kit if
you are installing any copper pipe this
machine can bend 15 millimeter am 22
millimeter copper pipe the machine
itself has two angles you also have two
farmers that's a twenty two millimeter
one that's the fifteen millimeter so on
and then you have an orc which also pipe
in position whilst you bend it you can
use the Machine simply by grouping the
angles like that and putting your pipe
in and bending it but it's quite
difficult doing it out there and it's a
lot easier to demonstrate how to use it
correctly in device so I'm not going to
fix this in the bench vise you'll notice
that at the end there it has got a
square piece on that makes it very easy
to fit in the vise there are a couple of
reasons why you'd bend a pipe rather
than using Ella bores it's a lot cheaper
if you bend the pipe
also there's no joint to leak and also
you get increased floor to a sweeping
Bend more than what you will do through
an L board because an elbow chemistry to
the floor of the water so I'm not going
to put that in the vise and then I'm
gonna tighten up the anvil on this
particular job we're doing it's not
critical because I'm just showing you
how to actually use a machine but if you
were doing quite a few bends it will be
better if you actually leveled the
machine off in the vise you get it level
in both directions it is a lot easier
doing some kinds of bends because
instead of using the back of the eye you
can then use your spirit level to check
that your pipe is straight we'll cover
that in some future videos so often I'm
just going to get this somewhat level
then I'll cite it on device for this
demonstration I'm going to bend a piece
of 15 mil copper pipe and the piece of
22 mil I've cut the source they are
exactly the same length because when you
bend a pipe a pipe actually grows by the
width the pipe that you are bending saw
with 15 mil 22 milli started critical if
you were on site and you were bending a
three-inch pad for a 4-inch pipe if you
don't work out correctly where you bend
are supposed to be you can be 3/4 or
even 18 mm the pipe so a 15 millimeter
pipe which is 15 millimetres outside
diameter that will glow by 15
millimetres when you bend it the 22 milk
or by 22 mil which will be 11 mil in
each direction I'm not going to
demonstrate that to you and we're not
going to do a simple 90 degree Bend on
both of these pieces of copper pipe now
I'm just going to put the pipe in into
the former and we're just going to lift
that up or I'm just going to bend the
pay double all the pipe without see it
falling out of the pipe bending machine
we're now going to get the guide the
guide is profiled the same profile as
the copper tube now I'm just going to
slide that on there and push it we're
just going to pull the anvil now so that
it just starts to grip the tube and now
take a square we can push the square
against natural for me and now I'm just
going to push the path back so that we
get it in the correct position so I've
actually drawn a line on each piece of
the tubing in the exact centre once
that's in the correct place and then I'm
going to pull on the Andal and that will
then start the tube so I'm just going to
pull that round you can see that that is
now bending
we're now just going to check on the top
using a squirt to see exactly where 90
degrees is and you can see that that
needs to move considerably more to get
it to 90 degrees what have you been in
anything like this you just need to go
up past so we just need to walk past 90
degrees because it will look screen back
slightly so we just need to go a little
bit why we've now been up to 90 degrees
can now see at the guy dolls and pull
the pipe out see that there we have a 90
degree Bend we'll just check out using
the squirt and you can see that that is
bent at 90 degrees and as I said earlier
you do get a long sweeping Bend with a
bender which is what better than using
an elbow now I'm going to do exactly the
same using the 22 millimeter 5 so I'll
just try to get up around there this
time you need the larger farmer again
you need the profile side against the
pipe
and we're just going to use the square
to square up hide and get it in the
exact right position which is right we
can now pull on the pipe bender it is a
little bit harder bending 22 mother
and I'll just take a look at that nice
about a little bit forever
that should be about right now just
going to remove the guide then we'll
just remove the pipe you can see that
that is also bent that's 90 degrees you
can now see that we've got the 15
millimeter pipe under twenty two
millimeter pay and you'll notice that
the 22 millimeter pipe has grown more
than what the 15 millions of pipe adds
so that's something to consider when you
are bending pipes the pipe will grow by
the diameter of the pipe that you are
bending you can see that the pipe bender
gives you a very neat Bend even on this
22 millimeter copper pipe if you try to
bend that using a pipe bending spring it
would be incredibly difficult trying to
bend that piece of pipe because it is so
short even bending a long piece of 22
millimeter pay with a pipe bending
spring is difficult using a pipe bender
is a lot easier you also get a very very
neat Bend
