by Bend Tooling | Apr 15, 2024
Today’s blog dives into the world of low-pressure tube bending. This technique helps you achieve clean, precise bends without putting unnecessary stress on your materials, tooling and bender. Although many benders have the ability to generate a tremendous amount...
by Bend Tooling | Feb 13, 2024
Tube bending is a crucial process in various industries, from manufacturing heavy-walled stainless steel pipes for nuclear reactors to crafting delicate precious-metal tubing for jewelry. Among the available bending methods, draw bending stands out as the preferred...
by Bend Tooling | Oct 31, 2023
Whether the times are lean or fat, cost-effective tube bending always makes sense. Just like any other manufacturing operation, keeping rotary-draw tube bending profitable means process control. That means: (1) Bringing under control all of the elements of the...
by Steve Parrow | Aug 8, 2023
When your next rotary draw bending application calls for a wiper die, you might want to think twice about which type of wiper you should use. The purpose of a wiper die is straightforward: filling the gap between the tube and the bend die, opposite the pressure...
by Steve Parrow | Jun 22, 2023
Excess bender force cannot overcome a poor setup or worn tools Programmability, speed, accuracy, and of course power are just some of the many advancements in modern CNC and NC rotary draw, mandrel-capable tube bending machines over the last few decades. However, even...
by Steve Parrow | Apr 10, 2023
Rigidity, aesthetics, and weight are at the top of the list of factors that engineers at the OEM level must consider when deciding between round or nonround tubing for design projects. Conversely, formability, weldability, and repeatability are the primary concerns of...
by Steve Parrow | Jan 30, 2023
The perception that aluminum is typically tougher to weld or paint than most other metals used for fabrication is pervasive, so it’s not surprising to learn that that bending aluminum tubing requires a bit more consideration than most other tubular materials. Material...
by Bend Tooling | Jan 27, 2023
Precisely positioning the tooling can result in repeatable and quality bends Even though we are in the age of CNC machinery, the old phrase “the tools make the bend” is as relevant today as ever. As tube bending applications have become more extreme (see Figure 1),...
by Bend Tooling | Sep 5, 2017
This is a very helpful interactive utility that calculates the ideal placement of the mandrel nose. It also generates the ideal mandrel nose diameter for your specific application. This set-up tool should be used in conjunction with the “Forward Mandrel, Low...
by Bend Tooling | Aug 30, 2017
Rotary-draw bending, or draw bending for short, is the best means of consistently producing high-quality tube bends, whether the application is heavy-walled stainless steel pipe for a nuclear reactor or delicate precious-metal tubing for jewelry. This is because,...