[PSUBS-MAILIST] Tube Bending Tips/Advice

[Alan via Personal_Submersibles]

Steve,
more thoughts; if you are wanting to bend it to the curvature of your hull
you won't get a nice job with an expensive small tube bender, you would
end up with a series of small bends to form the large curve.
If you bend the tube over a large profile the chances are you will put a kink
in your expensive tube.
On the large curves fitting the subs profile perhaps you could bend it without 
putting a permanent curve in it, & just push it in to the fitting with spring
tension on it.
Cheers Alan

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> On 10/03/2018, at 4:33 AM, Steve McQueen via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> Getting ready to take some very straight SS tubing and bend it for installation.  Never bent tubing before but I have a small hand bender and an idea. I was thinking on using something rigid but something I could form/bend by hand (heavy wire?) and make a template to then bend the final piece against.
> 
> Looking for advice form those who have done this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
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