bsbarnes10
Active Member
Hi All,
I'm having a lot of difficulty getting one particular piece of tubing bent. On page 27iS-04 there is a template and instructions to bend the piece from the tank back to the shutoff valve. At the tank end there is a 38 degree bend that starts only 16.7 mm from the end of the tube. The instructions say to flare the end, then bend it (38 degrees), then slide the nut and sleeve from the opposite end of the tube. I've tried this a couple different ways and can't seem to get it right>
1. Doing it as recommended in the KAI - The sleeve won't fit over the bend in the tubing
2. Alternate method 1 - Flare the end, slide on the sleeve, then use my HF tubing bender. Problem here is that the sleeve is larger than the tubing so it won't fit down into the groove on the bender. I can get it butted right up to the edge and then roll the tube in the bender but then the bend starts further from the end of the tube (about 1/2" further) so it's not matching the template.
3. Alternate method 3 - Attempting to hand bend over wooden forms/table edges/etc. just flattens the tubing at the bend.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
I'm having a lot of difficulty getting one particular piece of tubing bent. On page 27iS-04 there is a template and instructions to bend the piece from the tank back to the shutoff valve. At the tank end there is a 38 degree bend that starts only 16.7 mm from the end of the tube. The instructions say to flare the end, then bend it (38 degrees), then slide the nut and sleeve from the opposite end of the tube. I've tried this a couple different ways and can't seem to get it right>
1. Doing it as recommended in the KAI - The sleeve won't fit over the bend in the tubing
2. Alternate method 1 - Flare the end, slide on the sleeve, then use my HF tubing bender. Problem here is that the sleeve is larger than the tubing so it won't fit down into the groove on the bender. I can get it butted right up to the edge and then roll the tube in the bender but then the bend starts further from the end of the tube (about 1/2" further) so it's not matching the template.
3. Alternate method 3 - Attempting to hand bend over wooden forms/table edges/etc. just flattens the tubing at the bend.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!