Copper bending methods?

[Ian]

Hi all, I learnt some copper bending methods on the olci course and I've forgotten them and getting access to the course material is impractical at the mo. been searching online but havent been able to find those actual methods. Does anyone have a link to them by any chance I was wondering? Been appreciated if you could give us a link

 

[mountainman]

Method one, buy a bending spring.
Method two, buy a tube bender.

 

[gavinwilson]

join the copper club not being funny,look for it online and register they send out a dvd etc comes in handy when learning

 

[Ian]

Forgot about the copper club

 

[Bubblecraft]

Method Three, Use your knee

Joking aside, spring or bender is the more common methods

 

[kay-jay]

Sand and a blowtorch anyone?

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[Koogatubac]

I so suprised hardly any plumbers dont know how to bend copper. New apprentices that are in their 2nd year dont know how to use a pipe bender and asked me "where is the 90* mark?"

I got taught this the first week into plumbing. Maybe im feeling old and now all plumbing is just plastic and push fit.

Btw i h8 plastic! Your not a plumber if all you use is plastic. Many builders/brick layers are doing all their plumbing because plastic is so easy! True plumber sticks to the traditional way

 

[jtsplumbing]

Just jump on it ! some installs ive seen it looks like the favorite method and its cheep !

 

[wheeto]

Hi all, I learnt some copper bending methods on the olci course and I've forgotten them and getting access to the course material is impractical at the mo. been searching online but havent been able to find those actual methods. Does anyone have a link to them by any chance I was wondering? Been appreciated if you could give us a link

Have a look at this page

Bending copper pipes

 

[DTG plumbing]

Also of you can bend copper it looks neater, saves money and time
and like anything else, is easy when you know how. Ps never used a spring
only a machine bender

 

[chris watkins]

Method one, buy a bending spring.
Method two, buy a tube bender.

Method three buy some sand (or does that make me very old??)

Sorry Kay-jay did not see your post.

 

[leelister6]

[DLMURL]http://www.ciphe.org.uk/Global/Student%20Study%20Section/Copper%20pipework%20bending.pdf[/DLMURL]

 

[Guest123]

These vids on Youtube are really easy to follow:

How to bend copper pipe/tube. UK tutor. Bryan Durban 60mm offset - YouTube

 

[Guest123]

Just one thing though, never put a flexi in a pipe bender. It's sacrilege and you'll burn in hell.

 

[AWheating]

number one...... spend all your spare time on ebay waiting to get your hands on a older style record hand bender as most of the modern one are pants. One of the reasons i think many plumbers dont use there bender alot now is the poor quality machines making bad looking bends and wasting copper.

as with anything practice make purfect.