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 of...
The Bend Tooling Mandrel and Wiper Chart allows for quick and easy evaluation of almost any rotary-draw tube bending application for round tubing. This tool will allow you to determine the mandrel and wiper tooling requirements for your application.
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...
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...
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 Pressure"...
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,...
In rotary-draw tube-bending the tools make the bend. Small variations or errors in the design, manufacture, or set-up of rotary-draw tools can lead to loss of process control, poor bend quality, abbreviated tool life, and other headaches. This includes the wiper die....
If you are unsure of the link sizes you wish to order, please reference the dimensions below to find the correct size. A B C D #6 link .472" 0.371" .118" .128" #7 link .623" 0.496" .174" .128" #8 link .750" .621" .197" .258" #9 link .872" .746" .278" .258" #10 link...
Below are common tube and pipe size standards. Click on any table for a larger view.
Welcome to the “Bending Formulas” section of our website. Below you will find a variety of rotary-draw tube bending related formulas and calculations to help you evaluate your tube bending application. Please reference the “Table of Factors” for each of the formulas...
Over thirty years ago Bend Tooling Inc. developed and refined the only line of poppet links available for rotary-draw tube-bending. As consequence, when Bend Tooling’s competitors need to supply their customers with poppet links, they purchase them from Bend Tooling....
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...