We used these pipe benders in Holland. Ones with a slide to do copper and ones with a wheel to do stainless steel for the heating. I tried to use my Dutch benders over here but it kept getting ribbels in the bend. Dutch copper is stiffer or softer which made my benders unsuitable. I've used the hilmor bender and it is heavy, you have to carry 2 guides. The guide on the bender itself moves so you can't get milimeter perfect measured bends. As the hilmor is offset of the copper pipe, it also messes with the balance. You can overbend it to say 95°, but with the monument bender you have the copper aligned and when you pull a 90° bend, you pull the bender bars all the way and it ends up being perfect. I'll be making a video showing the difference of measuring and how to bend pipes with both benders
I have just bought the 15mm and the 22mm best pipe benders out there sorry lads but there are and the pass overs are as easy as the normal pipe benders
The MD couldn't sell beer to thirsty miners. I don't think that I've ever seen anyone struggle as much to describe what it is that they're selling and how to use it and then to completely bottle it when it came to a demonstration of how to bend 22mm pipe because he obviously hasn't the strength to use the tool that he's so inept at promoting.
Would be good to have tool talk with someone who uses the tools .
Spot on sir he needs to stick to painting
We used these pipe benders in Holland. Ones with a slide to do copper and ones with a wheel to do stainless steel for the heating.
I tried to use my Dutch benders over here but it kept getting ribbels in the bend. Dutch copper is stiffer or softer which made my benders unsuitable.
I've used the hilmor bender and it is heavy, you have to carry 2 guides. The guide on the bender itself moves so you can't get milimeter perfect measured bends.
As the hilmor is offset of the copper pipe, it also messes with the balance. You can overbend it to say 95°, but with the monument bender you have the copper aligned and when you pull a 90° bend, you pull the bender bars all the way and it ends up being perfect.
I'll be making a video showing the difference of measuring and how to bend pipes with both benders
Is 15mm what we called 1/2 in US?
yes
Have to say, how can you review a bending machine without actually bending a piece of pipe
How do you do double crossovers. Like over pipes. As when you do you third bend the hand keeps getting in the way. 🤣??
years of exp
I think the monument benders are class though. But only limited to kicks. And standard bends. But better that that. X.
Can that bender be got to suit Irish copper... ?
I’d like to see how it is used with a full length of tube.
A hand bender for 28mm would be good!!!!
That would be very hard to bend.
Need massive muscles to operate that
I have just bought the 15mm and the 22mm best pipe benders out there sorry lads but there are and the pass overs are as easy as the normal pipe benders
So there is no advantage over the bender that does both? Surely it’s a tighter diameter for the 15mm?
Too much waffle..get on with it
The MD couldn't sell beer to thirsty miners.
I don't think that I've ever seen anyone struggle as much to describe what it is that they're selling and how to use it and then to completely bottle it when it came to a demonstration of how to bend 22mm pipe because he obviously hasn't the strength to use the tool that he's so inept at promoting.
No 22mm demo plus no close up of the bend. Another bloody pointless demo
Made in Britain...
Apart from the Handibender!!