Pipe benders and Pipe cutters!!

redfinger · Post by **redfinger** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:46 am

Any one know where I could purchase smaller versions of these items suitable for bending/cutting very small copper tubing?

Thanks,

Ashton

Jonas Calhoun · Post by **Jonas Calhoun** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:35 am

K&S has a small one.

Dan

USSARCADIA · Post by **USSARCADIA** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:31 pm

Micromark has one too:
http://www.ares-server.com/Ares/Ares.as ... t&ID=60360

Umi_Ryuzuki · Post by **Umi_Ryuzuki** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:46 pm

small pipe cutters should be available at your local hardware store.

I personally have not had much luck with spring benders.
I usually end up with a kink.

For most large tubing bends, 1/4" or larger, I fill the tube with sand, and then heat it with propane torch and bend the tube around a "mandrel", another tube, or rod, to match my inside radius of the bend. Then empty the sand out.

Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:05 pm

Best small tube cutter ever!

The heck with normal mini-pipe cuters. Go cut-off.