Decent Pipe Bender

[cr0ft]

OK. I have a 1 year old Rothenberger pipe bender. I've kept the formers and bending tracks nice and clean with wire wool. It is rippling occasionally on 15mm pipe and almost every time on 22mm pipe.

I am about to throw it in the bin and get another one. Any recommendations for a good quality pipe bender that will last? Don't mind spending decent money on something that people rate highly.

 

[EPH]

I've got the Bahco one but that's silly money and I rarely use it.

Have more trouble with poor quality copper than poor quality benders.

 

[leelister6]

Think it must be the copper. had a Record bender for years and never had a problem with 15mm but for last few yearsthe 22 ripples nearly every time. Tried using a hacksaw blade between the former and roller as a shim and this sometimes helps.

 

[dancinplumba]

I agree its the copper, 22 seems to ripple all the time, does me head in

 

[turnpin]

Imported copper ...say no more.lol regards Turnpin:20:

 

[Leo21]

Hillmor, had it ten years plus and no rippling as yet. But then again I don't look for it.

 

[Toxic Ted]

My rothenbergers ripple occasionally so i've been thinking of treating myself.......might give the bahco ones a go...

 

[Roger Welton]

Bahco ones don't do 22mm, unless they have one I've not seen around. 15mm one is ace though.

 

[Toxic Ted]

Bahco ones don't do 22mm, unless they have one I've not seen around. 15mm one is ace though.

Once again the devil farts in my general direction.......

 

[Ray Stafford]

Benditnow used to have a good reputation on here.

 

[Toxic Ted]

mmmmmmm available from an independant suppliers near me Ray?

 

[Killy Bing]

bend it now make Nerrad benders.
can grab them from pts.

however i haven't tried them or know anyone who's given them a bash yet.

i had hilmor glm but searched ebay for two years and found a still boxed set of records early cranked arm benders. haven't rippled or kinked abit of pipe in a year now with them.

 

[TBServices]

INCORRECT!

I bought a set of benditnow hand benders a few weeks ago and they're cracking.

 

[Ray Stafford]

mmmmmmm available from an independant suppliers near me Ray?

No, 'fraid not TT. We don't stock them, but I remember others raving about them, so that was a genuinely altruistic post. My one for the year. Maybe decade. Ok, century then.

We are rotten beggar stockists.

 

[TBServices]

Buy direct, they're on offer for £49.99 including delivery. I ordered mine Sunday and bizarrely, they arrived on Monday :s

Well impressed!

 

[cr0ft]

I've ordered the bend it now ones as there seems to be a few good reviews on here. Where can you buy copper pipe made in the UK nowadays?

 

[Leo21]

Buy direct, they're on offer for £49.99 including delivery. I ordered mine Sunday and bizarrely, they arrived on Monday :s

Well impressed!

Mate they as good or better than hillmor?

 

[Ermintrude]

I've ordered the bend it now ones as there seems to be a few good reviews on here. Where can you buy copper pipe made in the UK nowadays?

China !

 

[tamz]

Every bit

 

[Killy Bing]

Mate they as good or better than hillmor?

bend it now made the old hilmors that were good.
it's literally just them.

hilmor took their production and quality over seas.....

 

[TBServices]

I can't remember what my Hilmors were like when they were new tbh, but they're a vast improvement on my the way they've ended up. They're identical tbh, but made in the uk.

 

[Ray Stafford]

I've ordered the bend it now ones as there seems to be a few good reviews on here. Where can you buy copper pipe made in the UK nowadays?

I don't think you can be sure of any of it. Wednesbury sold out to Mueller. Yorkshire belongs to KME. I think Lawtons still manufacture in the UK, but I am not sure if they do all sizes in the UK.

 

[cr0ft]

Ray with your buying clout you should set up a UK copper pipe manufacturer and sell it all to Williams & Co cheaply! Let's bring back UK manufacturing I say.

 

[Ray Stafford]

Ray with your buying clout you should set up a UK copper pipe manufacturer and sell it all to Williams & Co cheaply! Let's bring back UK manufacturing I say.

I think quite a lot of it is made in the UK. Its just with these pan-European groups, you can never be sure.

 

[tamz]

I don't think you can be sure of any of it. Wednesbury sold out to Mueller. Yorkshire belongs to KME. I think Lawtons still manufacture in the UK, but I am not sure if they do all sizes in the UK.

Lawtons is really good pipe. About the only ones who sell it up this way are william wilsons.