How to bend
Pipe Without Pipe Bender
Hot Forming Pipe (Bending Pipe Without a Bender)
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hello everyone
welcome back to the workshop so today I
am going to be working further along on
this little bit of a lamp project my
little tact project that I've been
working on several other videos
the one where I did the cattail leaves
and I did the decorative base so today
we're gonna work on the stem portion now
this is just a scrap piece of 5/8
outside diameter tubing that I had
laying around the shop yeah it was
essentially I bought this with a whole
bunch of other sprout so I don't even
know what it's made of
really I'm assuming it is a mild steel
tube of some sort I guess we'll find out
on that but today we're gonna go ahead
and Bend this up and I'm gonna show you
the jig that I use to be able to bend
this thing up and I'll talk a little bit
about it when we're making our first bin
thanks for watching okay everyone so
here we are at the vise the first step
in this process is any time that you've
been tubing you have got to provide
support for the around the bend of the
tube to stop the side walls from
collapsing out on you now this might
prove a little interesting because it
looks like somebody was doing some sort
of generic lathe work on this piece
testing on a lathe of some sort and so
there's some thicker and thinner spots
here and that might actually give me
some troubles but we'll have to see how
this works out so basically what I've
constructed here is just a piece of
angle iron so I bent the angle iron to
about the shape since it bends easier
than tubing does about the way I want
the curvature to be and what I'm going
to do is I'm actually going to heat this
whole piece up right in here where I
want my bend to go and then I'm gonna
lock the whole thing in the vise just
like so the cold bit and then I should
be able to take and grab and Bend this
right on around that is the ideal now
I've already done it before where I had
this locked in the vise like so and then
I just kind of clamped on it and then
pulled this around that worked okay but
it wasn't as handy so something like
this
is gonna work better if you do where you
clamp the whole jig and pipe take that
few seconds to lock it down in the vise
and then go ahead and Bend this around
now with that being said you can see
this is just open era nothing supported
well we're not really trying to hammer
against this this is mental this is
meant to simply just hold the shape of
the pipe and stop it from collapsing as
much now in my earlier tests on a much
larger section of pipe I did find that
the pipe tried to collapse a little bit
because it was a lot larger than this I
haven't tested this yet so we're gonna
see how this goes
this has a workout I'll be back to the
scrapyard and I'll have to go but
actually buy me some tube because I
don't have any laying around so I'll
have to go get me some more too and
we'll have to read a lot to do this
again in another day without further ado
let's get this thing heated up I will be
back to the device and we will go ahead
and bend it around here for this first
Bend
okay everyone got that up nice and hot
go ahead clamp the tubes down use a pair
of scrolling tongs here and see if I
can't get this to start to bend so far
so good I think whenever you do
something like this you want to take it
a little bit at a time you know this is
obviously not a tubing bender you've got
to be careful how much torque and stuff
you put on it and go oh it's actually
done really well I held up good there's
very minimal very minimal deforming this
way that's just the thickened part
anyhow and so yet that's already getting
there so I think I'm gonna take another
heat back in here we're gonna go ahead
and bend it around a little more
so this way that there will match up if
you see how that works
so I'm gonna put that up there like so
and then I'm going to continue to tweak
this portion on around Oh
now last thing real quick whenever
you're working with pipe it is important
for this is a safety thing so pay
attention whenever you're working with
pipe it is important to plug one end of
the pipe with a plug of some sort
I recommend tissue paper or a wet rag of
some kind to stop the chimney effect I
went over this and the dangers of
forging pipe video I'll put a link to
that in the description at the end here
but if you stick this end in the fire it
will chimney up through here and get
this very hot to where you can't touch
it if you're going to just work with
tongs it's probably no big deal but I
like to hold my stock if I can you can
wrap it with just a paper towel like so
and I've actually wet in the end of the
paper towel and shoved it up in there
and then went ahead and put this around
it that gives you a comfortable grip
that you can get the work done so
there's a little tip there on safety
we'll be right back and we'll continue
bending this on around all right
here we are with our second heat I'm
gonna go ahead and place this out just a
little further and then clamp her down
again like we did before and now we're
going to slip these in here I'm gonna
give her a pole again I'm just trying to
go slow enough that I don't cause any
kinks here this is essentially the ideal
of it you just want to go slow enough
that you don't create it and kinking you
want to get the form you want without
the Kings so there we are I think that
looks pretty darn good that that flatten
out a little bit but I'll go to the
handle and I'll show you how you can
correct that
and that matches the pitch almost
perfectly so that's what we're watching
go separate that and I think some of
that King King was probably just from
that weak point pipe it forced it to
bend uneven so you can see there's a
little bit of a pinch there we're going
to take care of that by squaring this
back up over at the impulse horn and
I'll show you I'll show you what I mean
by that and then we will go on to
bending the next portion which is gonna
actually be down in here and I need to
get a little softer a little softer bin
to it so you know it's gonna come like
that kind of curve down if you will keep
that in line okay everyone I got this
hot I'm gonna use a rawhide mallet and
I'm gonna set this curve not like this
I'm just gonna rock it up a little bit
and then I'm gonna roll it down just
like that just kind of like hooking it
down and around like that and that'll
take out most of that pink and almost
beat well it'll be pretty much
non-existent for the most part to the
untrained eye of course live in a
country where you got blacksmithing
standards this may not pass they're
journeyman test or master Smith
qualifications but hey that's alright I
don't care about any of those sort of
things I'm an American alright that's a
joke guys just didn't keep me
entertained
I like all my foreign myths out there
that subscribe to my channel you guys
are awesome you bring a whole different
flavor to the channel I like it so there
we are you see how I got that bent there
that curves nice and pretty much where I
want it now so now what I have to do
is create and actually I might go a
little more with it I'm looking at it
now I think it needs to curb just a
little bit more so I think what I'm
going to do now is I'm going to take the
opportunity to cool off this bend a
little bit so I can heat it right in
here and get it to curve over just a
little more because what I'm trying to
do is create this very elegant piece
like that it's kind of hard to do with
this chunky pipe we'll see how it goes I
think it'll give it an interesting
texture though so I'll go ahead and take
another hint I'll go over the vise I'll
curve it that extra a little bit and
then I'll come back to you guys when
we're going the opposite direction where
I want to kind of put my bend at it's
gonna give this a little bit of a bend
don't want to give it too much too soon
I said I just want to kind of get a
little bit of a bend going there we go
so something like that'll work for me I
think that'll work out just right
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there we go
so remember forging pipe can be fun but
it can also be dangerous it takes a
little extra considerations you know at
first when I was doing this I was
thinking maybe I need to go out and buy
a bender or some sort of tubing bender
something commercially made this that
will have you it just turns out it was
just as cheap and easy to go ahead and
make something in-house quick and simple
bend the hanger arm to the side to the
shape you want your pipe to be bent
clamp it in and go to town and that's a
good way of bending up some pipe there
so hope you guys enjoyed this video
check in on the next video where we're
actually gonna Forge the bloom of this
lamp which I'm really liking so it's
going to actually be like a flower bloom
on the front here and we're going to tie
all this together with our decorative
base we're gonna go ahead and tie it
into our decorative base we'll have our
flower bloom a light bulb wire it and
it's got to be a good time so thank you
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