How To Bend Copper Tubing Without A Bender

If you need a quick fix and dont have a tubing bender or a compression spring on hand pack the tube tightly with clean fine grain sand.

How to bend copper tubing without a bender. Copper pipes can be bent correctly by bending springs or patented pipe benders reducing the number of fittings to be used. Mark the copper tubing where you want to make the bend. This instructable will show you how to do it using sand and some creativity. So next time you need to bend some piping for a project you could rush to the hardware shop to grab a pipe bender or you could simply give your muscles a workout.

Most people can actually bend soft metals such as copper and aluminium with their bare hands. Bend around virtually any radius. Tape off ends of any size pipe and fill with compacted sand. With any type of copper tube work slowly and carefully.

If necessary grab a ruler or measuring tape to make sure the placement and spacing of each bend is as precise as possible. Easy and effective way to bend tubing without kinking it. Use a felt tipped marker to draw one or more lines along the top of the tube. You can coil soft copper tubing such as refrigerator tubing by hand without it kinking if you are careful.

Getting to know your metals. How to bend copper pipe and tubing without crushing it. I recently made a copper tubing coil to use in a solar powered water boiler and learned the right way and the wrong way to bend copper tubing. The sand has enough fluid property to be flexible under pressure while not being compressible enough to allow kinking.

The tubing is easy to bend when making large radius curves but is likely to kink or crush when trying. In this project you will learn how to bend a copper pipe bending spring or a pipe bending plumber. Hard copper tubing more commonly called copper pipe requires tools to bend without it kinking. How to bend pipe without a pipe bender.

If you have a lot of pipe work to do you might like to invest in. There are some restrictions to bending metals without a. The pipe shown here is 4130 steel 34 in diameter with a wall th. Empty the sand out of the tube and rinse thoroughly.

Heat can be used on very thick wall tubingpipe. Knowing how to bend the copper pipe round obstacles and use fewer accessories is a good trick. For some methods of bending tubing you need to heat your pipes and you do this with a plumbers torch. Part of my homemade air compressor series.

The illustration shows small butane torch with a handheld bottle is perfectly adequate for soldering your pipes and you can just about manage to bend pipes with this but it can be difficult to get the pipe up to temperature.