Tubing Bender

A "Tubing Bender" is a mechanical instrument used to bend metal tubing or plastic tubing. No real suprises there! The process of bending the tube will permanently form pipes or tubing into the shape desired, allowing the tube or pipe to go around corners, or to be used in many other ways. The original straight tube can be bent using a tubing bender to create single or multiple bends and to shape the piece of tubing into the desired form. A tubing bender can even be used to form complex shapes out of different types of metal tubing, some of which is quite intricate. Most often, round tubing stock is what is used in tube bending, however, square and rectangular tubes and pipes made of either plastic or metal be bent if the tubing bender is able to accomodate that particular shape. There are several important factors that must be considered prior to beding the tube, such as the wall size of the tube, the thickness, tooling and potentially evey lubricants needed by the pipe and tubing bender to best shape the tube.