Irwin HILGLM Hilmor Glm Pipe Bender including The Guides & Box Hilglm, 15mm-22mm

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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. Some years ago I made a pipe bender for small copper tube as I just could not buy one for small diameter pipe. 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)

They weigh under 500g, and that’s pretty-lightweight, but they certainly provide more than enough power to get the job done. 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.We posed this question through the Tooltalk App (see all the answers in the app available for iOS or Android AOS).

Simply because they’re a well known brand in the plumbing industry, a tonne of engineers go for Rothenberger. The image to the right shows that the pipe has been flattened by just under 0.4mm – the basic reason for this is that the formers are not quite correct for 4mm pipe or that there is a tendency for the two sides of the former to move apart during the forming process. I suspect that this is actually due to a combination of these: poor fit and forms coming apart. However, as microbore is notoriously weak, it’s not like you need anything heavy duty. #2 – Monument Mini Pipe Benders The grooves are nice and clean and the two parts of the former align cleanly and grip the pipe well.There are several types of formers and guides available, including standard formers, multi-radius formers, and offset formers. Standard formers are used for making straight bends in pipes, while multi-radius formers are used for making bends with multiple radii. Offset formers are used for making bends that are offset from the center of the pipe. Copper isn’t cheap so that’s money right there, going to waste. More importantly, it’s wasting time. lighter in the hand than a combi. The Monument combi weighs more than 4kg; the XV weighs 1.5kg; the XXII weighs 2.3kg 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 Usually, a lightweight product is a good thing. Take a cordless impact driver for instance. The lighter, the better.

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. 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. There are some benders specifically suited to smaller pipe (8mm/10mm for instance), and we’ll cover those later. Thanks for reading our 5-minute review of the best copper pipe benders for plumbers and heating engineers. Monument have reengineered a design previously unseen on the UK market. The (launched in June 2020 ) pipe benders, 1215K XV 15mm Pipe Bender, the 1315XVE 15mm (1315Longarm XVL 15mm) , the 1222G XXII 22mm and the 1322Extended XXIIE 22mm Pipe Benders deliver force to bend the pipe in the same plane as the bend. The traditional combi bender such as the Hilmor ® GLM or Irwin ® GLM or Monument ® MON2600 are offset from the bending plane.

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. Place the Lever Arm over the positioned pipe and place the Lever Hook onto the Pivot Pins, ensure the Nylon Guide is seated.