An excellent way to make complicated dends in thin walled tube. Arguably quicker than cutting and welding pre bent tube and visibly nicer. I don't understand why the jig was not bolted to the floor, that would give both hands to doing the bending. I cringe at the lack of guard on the angle grinder and worse the bench grinder. Abrasive wheels do shatter and with no guard thepieces would fly everywhere rather than being contained within the guard.
I've always wanted to do that but was afraid gases would build up inside the tube and blow my head off like a pipe bomb.Thought you had to drill a couple of small vent holes to let the gases escape or you were dead.
@@cristianpopescu78Works the same, just be more careful when bending the tube. Make sure you also do not have any moisture in the sand (wet sand + enclosed space = bomb to blow up in your face.
Weld a pipe closed - bad news. Work with coal in shorts and sandals - plain old stupid. No gloves - nuts. But best of all grind on the side of a wheel - only in Asia.
Don't really need sand and heat to bend schedule 40 pipe just the former and and a jack, be a better job as well, only really need heat if below 10 C and then only on 2 inch and over.
Hi, That is a very good idea. Do you have the same experience bending aluminum pipes? Please teach me how much temperature is required to bend the aluminum tube?
I've seen guys use this same exact method, all the way down to the charcoal, with 3" pipe, carefully bending around old rims. Not everyone can afford mandrel benders.
