Your cart is empty.
Your cart is empty.Mike Cook
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2025
Some folks think these are supposed to work on solid copper tubing. Nope. RIDGID tubing is NOT designed to bend. It will deform a little, but it's brittle and will eventually kink and break. KNOW THE METAL BEFORE USING ANY TUBE BENDING DEVICE. If it's ridgid WATER pipe, it's not meant to bend. It works great on coiled copper tubing (soft copper). Such as HVAC, soft aluminum, and some thin wall steel. GO SLOW WHEN BENDING. Try not to overbend. Inspect as it bends. Sometimes you might want to move the dye a pinch one way or the other to keep from stressing one part too much. This tool worked fine for me.
Sal
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2025
Well made and it works flawlessly.
Jessie Hicks
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2025
Not really. But I used these to replace my old worn out hilmor ones. And these work better? Don’t hold the copper hostage after bending 90s, not one complaint.
Bill
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2024
Its great at kinking then breaking both red and blue style 1/2" Copper Pipe, but is an utter failure at bending it. I lost 1/3 a 10' section trying different techniques to make this work before giving up. With that being said, its overall build quality was fine and the ratcheting mechanism had plenty of force to work with. It may do better on other pipe types. The included cutter worked well.
drums2metal
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2024
I've bought 1 other cheap set of ratcheting benders before these.. those were the plastic mandrels and are a royal pain to take off of the pipe. I found that over bending, removing the tool (with the mandrel still stuck on the pipe), then stretching the pipe to the desired bend, was the only way to not struggle so much.. but THESE are great! Both of them were basically designed the same way though, so here's the flaw: the bottom of the mandrels don't actually snap/lock onto the tool. They have a small spring (folded strip of metal) screwed into the spot the tool goes into. That spring loses tension the 1st time u put a mandrel on it... 1 fix I haven't tried, is to use a harder strip of metal or thicker gauge of the same thing on there. I feel like that would work best, to keep the tool as built basically. The fix I DID try, is I removed the springs, used a tiny ball Dremel bit, dug little gouges into the mandrils where the tool inserts, and put a VERY light coating of silicone in there. The gouges are just for the silicone to have something to grab onto... Another idea I had (if the silicone starts wearing too quickly. So far so good after a month of using everyday), is to tack weld or jb weld a small 1/2" socket extension (that have spring loaded balls), then drill holes for the female spot on the mandrels, for the ball to snap into. I think that would be the perfect fix. Just gotta cut the shaft on the tool back, to accommodate the extension length too.. 1 day when work is slower, I'll definitely get around to that.Other than that, the benders work FLAWLESSLY! Just as good as a set of Black Max!
Yvonne
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2024
I purchased this Pipe Tube Bender for my son in law for his birthday. He works on HVAC air conditioners. He was very pleased with this product; he said it worked really well and makes his job much easier.Recommended
DF
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2024
It works, but the former doesn't have marks (that I can see) for aligning the pipe to bend in the correct location. 2 stars off because it makes it harder to use.
Konrad Nowak
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2024
The media could not be loaded.
Recommended Products