bending pipe

[rbartlett]

not a trick question..

what's your proceedure for bending 1/2 hard straight lengths of copper?


cheers

richard

[Peter_1]

Heating it with a torch to soften it in the region where you wanna bend it.
My experience is that if you don't do it, you can expect small cracks in the pipe or it may even crack completely.
Sometimes, I used a 5/8 bender for a 1/2 pipe.

[chemi-cool]

Hi Richard,

What Peter wrote, is the best way but I don't understand the part of using 5/8 bender.
1/2 bender will do the job just fine.

I use this method up to 11/8 pipes. For bending over 3/4, I use plastic pipe bender, it doe's the job after the copper was heated and left to cool.

Chemi