[NLRS] Re: Bending .141 coax to small radii.

[Gerald]

I saw a tubing bender in a Home Depot catalog, but it only went down to
1/4" tubing. About $24.

I ran onto a design in the Model Engineer Magazine this past week.
Volume 157, #3783 (they number from number 1 dated about 1898), 15
August 1986, pages 196-7. By Stan Bray, entitled "Bray's Bench. A small
pipe Bender." A good library should be able to find a copy by
interlibrary loan.

It consisted of a bracket to hold in a vise with a pivoted arm. A wheel
on the pivot is grooved to the size of the tubing and a wheel on the arm
that rides against that wheel is also grooved (each groove is the width
of the tubing and half its diameter deep and rounded) and adjustable to
fit snugly against the "pipe" to be bent. The grooved wheels are what
keep the pipe or coax from kinking.

-- 
73, Jerry, K0CQ
Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer
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