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Re: Bending Copper Tubing

To: "Sumner Weisman" <sweisman@gis.net>, "Triumphs" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Bending Copper Tubing
From: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:06:01 -0500
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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