Best method... pack with sand, then bend... I'm not comfortable doing that
on an oil pipe.
Next best, short of the bending tool, is to find an adult beverage with a
suitable container diameter, drain beverage, get bending!
HTH Peter C
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At 12:41 PM 4/19/2001, Sumner Weisman wrote:
>Does anyone have any neat tricks for bending small copper (or other) tubing
>without cracking or pinching it? I'm soon going to replace the oil line
>that goes from the engine to the oil pressure gauge. I know they make
>tubing benders, but are there any easy ways to do this? How about wrapping
>it around a curved form, such as a dowel? I haven't had good luck with this
>in the past.
>
>TIA.
>
>Sumner Weisman
>62 TR3B TSF263L
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