When choosing a pipe bender, you'll be faced with a few options. Many pipe benders or tube bender kits will be designed for a specific job or application, so choose wisely. Both the 15mm XXII includes two rubber feet to protect floors from when using the bender on the floor. If you’re working with microbore, unfortunately, there isn’t a set from Hilmore currently available in the UK. The Monument single sized pipe bender measurements can be seen in the image. 15mm standard version is approximately 460mm and the standard 22mm version is approximately 670mm. Combi Bender 2600K MON2600 Dual pipe bender - Dual pipe benders are the most common type of bender and are available in a wide range of shapes and sizes. When the levers are pulled fully, they provide a 90 degree bend.

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Plumbers meet many obstacles and restrictions when installing lengths of pipe, so pipe benders are essential for many plumbing jobs. The nylon guides are integral to the pipe bender helping to ensure they don’t get lost or damaged in a toolbag. Codes for these spare guides are 1216N 15mm Spare Nylon Guide and 1223J 22mm Spare Nylon Guide. The Monument 2600K 15mm and 22mm is a best selling pipe bender. These are available in Monument brand widely available across the UK from plumbers merchants and e-tailers MON2600 2600K, Instinct® brand INST2600 from PHG independent plumbers merchants and also from UKPS plumbers merchants including Plumbase under Entity® brand ENT2600. When initially launched on the UK market Monument ensured that the hook stop was redesigned so as to not mark the pipe. Problem? We’ve creased pipes (and had to junk that section) using cheap pipe benders multiple times. A. Cheap thin copper but even expensive copper ripples. But makes a big difference with running wire wool over the guides first. Keep them clean. Found the wee monument benders don’t ripple the pipe as much. Great wee benders (Answered by Roy Millar Plumbing and Heating on 26 Jan 2021)So, why do we use the Hilmore GLM tube benders, when there’s quite obviously others around the same price, and even more on offer for much less. throating occurs on testing with the XV, XVE (XVL) XXII, XXIIE as well as Monument 2600K and a Hilmor® GLM

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If you’re installing a whole run of heating/gas pipe, swapping out the guides is going to turn into a real bug-bear. The 15mm XXIIE with its extended arms gives more mechanical advantage over the 15mm XXII, making it even easier to make a bend. Included are two extension handles which are threaded and fit into the ends of the benders arms. The single sizes of each bender with their shorter bending arms and lightweight aluminium die casting makes each bender lighter to carry and the design of the 15mm-XV is small enough to fit inside a toolbag. throating occurs on testing with the XV, XVE (XVL) XXII, XXIIE as well as Monument 2600K and a Hilmor® GLMThe Monument Tools Masters XV Copper Pipe Bender is a single sized pipe bender for 15mm copper pipe (0.7mm wall). The 15mm pipe bender, also known as tube bender, is an essential part of the toolkit for any heating or plumbing engineer. Bending of copper pipe ensures unrestricted flow of water and can also create attractive, crafted finishes on installations.

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To get over this, aluminium formers (6) are placed between the hook (1) and the pipe and also between the stay (3) and the pipe. A. If your pipe is thin walled and your equipment is not clean (Answered by Colin Stainer Plumbing & Heating on 27 Jan 2021) Bending copper pipe can be done properly in two ways, ether a tool called a bending spring is used or a more substantial tool called a proprietary plumbers copper pipe bender is used. A. Cheap thin wall copper doesn’t help the issue, there was a batch a few years ago that was actually snapping. Damaged formers or the guide on bender itself can also do it. Or guides, formers that are not clean (Answered by PG Plumbing on 26 Jan 2021) better sight lines– as the bend is in the same plane as the Arms of the bender it is easier to line up by eyeWe have also designed bending arm extension handles to increase the leverage for bending both 15mm 22mm copper pipe. These short threaded extension handles code 1224M fit both the 15mm XV XVE & XVL and 22mm XXII versions. One or more extension handles can be added for additional leverage.

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better sight lines – as the bend is in the same plane as the Arms of the bender it is easier to line up by eye We posed this question through the Tooltalk App (see all the answers in the app available for iOS or Android AOS). Pipe benders come in a variety of sizes catering for copper pipes from 6mm to 38mm and are operated by hand. Mechanical benders deal with pipes bigger than this. Mark the pipe where you want start of the bend. Position the pipe in the Former under the Retaining Hook. Position the start of bend vertically in line with the Pivot Pin.

pipe, bent with a spring is ok, but do not expect a very tidy job and read our project about how to box the pipes in afterwards as although it will probably do the job it will need hiding away!