I would LOVE to hear that that hydraulic jack gizmo would do what
I want it to do!
It should be clear from my questions that I don't know a lot about
bending tubing, but this is what I've gathered from the research that I've
done.
First, Drawn over Mandrel (DOM) is the way that the tube is made
not the way that it is bent. Mandrel bending, so far as I can tell,
involves inserting a 'mandrel' (who'd have thought it?) into the tubing and
then bending it using special dies. The mandrel is sort of a chain of
spheres (it's a little more advanced than that) that keep the tubing from
collapsing at all while the bend is made. The other way to bend is called
a pressure bend. Pressure bending is pretty much what you do when you use
a pipe bender for electrical work. I think that some people pack sand into
the pipe when pressure bending to approximate a mandrel and to try to
minimize collapse.
Paul
At 10:31 AM 4/24/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Help me out here. What are the methods to bend tubing?
>
>What is the difference between 'mandrel bent' and 'drawn over mandrel'?
>
>Would either of these products work equally?
>
>http://tinyurl.com/a8jh
>
>http://www.jd2.com/
>
>Is it necessary to fill the tube with sand?
>
>Larry Hoy
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