Surely any builder, and just people who can and who loves to make repairs in their own homes with their own hands, faced with the need to bend the pipe in one direction, and is familiar with this tool as benders.
The scope of work, which may require bending is quite wide, it is supply and installation of pipes or air conditioning, installation of ventilation systems, as well as communication networks, etc.
Bending produces a bend of the pipe on the necessary size without wrinkles and flattening, allowing you to ensure that the ongoing work projects, and space saving space, by minimizing the area for technical communications.
Bending is indispensable in plumbing, when we have to work not only with fashionable nowadays metal-plastic pipes, and pipes made of various alloys of metal.
And if the plastic pipe bend quite easily, then if necessary, bend PEX tubing for plumbing of metal, the use of a specialized type of plumbing equipment, pipe benders, will be the best, if not the only solution.
Application of bending during the installation of piping systems can achieve huge savings in time, because using it all works are much faster.
Using the bending can partially eliminate the use of various bends, PEX fittings and welding, thus reducing considerably the necessary efforts and increasing the professional quality of the work by reducing the number of connecting elements.
Types benders
There are several types of benders. First, bending classified by type of material being processed: they can be used for aluminum, copper, steel, plastic and other pipes. Drive manual benders can be mechanical or hydraulic.
Hand benders
Hand benders typically used for bending tubes of small amount of stainless steel or titanium. They are divided into universal and issued under a specific pipe diameter. In a set of universal manual benders include segments for pipes of different diameters.
The angle of bending tools can be up to ninety or one hundred and eighty degrees.
Hydraulic benders
Hydraulic benders more popular. Their main advantage is primarily aimed at high power.
Hydraulic benders can bend steel pipe, whose diameter reaches three inches, without any physical effort on the part of the employee. Also, this tool has a relatively low cost.
Hydraulic benders characterize the small size and light weight, which allows to transport it anywhere in the installation of the pipeline.
As a rule, it is equipped with rugged, which prevents the tool from unexpected shocks. Hydraulic pump, part of the bending, making it work smoothly and fast. In this case, the master, working with the tool without experiencing any unnecessary physical exertion.
Thus, work on the modern trubogibnom equipment can even schoolboy.
All models benders are designed to bend any pipe was simple and would not cause a physical effort.
Hydraulic benders also be divided into hand-held and stationary, varying according to its weight, depending on the model, and the maximum diameter of a flexible tube.
Hand benders, specialized for folding of thin tubes, weigh only 50-60 kg., And it can fit in the trunk of a car. Such bending should be fine mobile brigade of builders, forced to mix for work from object to object.
Weight benders designed for use with large diameter pipes (100 mm and more), may reach half a ton.
To fold the gas and water pipes typically used portable hydraulic pipe benders.
For cold bending steel seamless pipes used tube bending machines.
All modern benders are designed to fold up to 180 degrees, and are used for bending pipes with a diameter of 5 to 120 mm from any metal.
Clearly, each model is designed for bending a certain range of diameters, depending on the device frame and stops.
But as a rule, the kit includes a set of bending shoes which can replace the size of the pipe.
Currently, the most popular and marketable assembly plumbing equipment and tools are firms “Rems” and “Virax”.
Virax, existing since 1920 – is a manufacturer of professional tools for plastic, brass, steel pipes.
Rems manufactures tools for handling of pipes and installation of heating systems and plumbing.
