which pipe benders?

[gmartine]

I read Hilmor are now made elsewhere and the quality is suspect.

Rothy, Record, Eclipse, Monument...I need some non-ripplers.

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[Darren Jackson]

Don't think you can go far wrong with Roth, My current pair have given me 16yrs of service and they are only just starting to ripple the odd 22mm now. So I'll be buying another pair of Rothenburger fairly soon. They owe me nowt.

 

[gmartine]

^^
Your old Rothys might be like old Hilmors when they were made in the UK and are now made elsewhere.

 

[1Steven]

Right!

 

[Atouchofgas]

http://www.benditnow.co.uk
Used to be the company that made hilmor

 

[gmartine]

^^ Great thanks, didn't need to spend another fifty or sixty quid to achieve the sort of result I could get from my knee.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

bend it now they made the old hilmors which are very good

 

[Last Plumber]

Get a spring too. Back to the good old days. You can hit your apprentice with them too, 28mm

 

[kris]

Knees are still recovering from days of the spring lol

 

[Darren Jackson]

^^
Your old Rothys might be like old Hilmors when they were made in the UK and are now made elsewhere.

Gotta love this forum, looks like its the old adage they don't make em like they used to! My old Rothy is on its last legs and from what your saying the new ones aren't as good, So guys I'm going to check out the "bend it now" ones.

 

[leelister6]

Got to be down to the quality of the pipe we get nowadays. When someone gets one of these new benders, can you let us know if the pipe still ripples?!

 

[gmartine]

Will do Lee.

Someone from ukpf head office contact BIN and give them the traffic numbers for this site in return for a 15% DISCOUNT CODE for a couple of weeks. I'm sure we'd all like to support British manufacturing where and when we can.

 

[Masood]

Keep an eye out on eBay. I got a Record 218 (the old red cranked arm one) for £35. Still in the original box, with both guides. Looked brand new. The box reminded me that they used to be called handibender. That used to make me giggle when I was a kid working with my old man!

 

[Masood]

In fact, there's one on now. Looks tatty but it'll clean up...

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/182296980094

 

[gmartine]

Got to be down to the quality of the pipe we get nowadays. When someone gets one of these new benders, can you let us know if the pipe still ripples?!

Compared to a set of hardly used Faithfull benders using the same bit of pipe they do not!!!

 

[Last Plumber]

It is down to quality of tube more than owt.

Whilst we're on this subject of nasty tube and bending.

Who remembers that copper years ago with the red stripe down the side. Like a warning it's too thin walled to bend ? It used to just snap, really annoying if you didn't notice the stripe and tried to bend it with a spring. Half an hour of swearing whilst trying to get spring back.

Or truweld, who remembers that. It was due to copper shortage in the 60's
that was tinned steel tube.

 

[Shower Engineer]

Who remembers that copper years ago with the red stripe down the side. Like a warning it's too thin walled to bend ? It used to just snap, really annoying if you didn't notice the stripe and tried to bend it with a spring. Half an hour of swearing whilst trying to get spring back.

I remember that, never really had to bend it as it was only used before I started work, think it is called YTW (Yorkshire Thin Wall) and was introduced during the copper shortage in the 70's

 

[Jay The Plumber]

I have the hilmor, cant fault it

 

[ShaunCorbs]

It is down to quality of tube more than owt.

Whilst we're on this subject of nasty tube and bending.

Who remembers that copper years ago with the red stripe down the side. Like a warning it's too thin walled to bend ? It used to just snap, really annoying if you didn't notice the stripe and tried to bend it with a spring. Half an hour of swearing whilst trying to get spring back.

Or truweld, who remembers that. It was due to copper shortage in the 60's
that was tinned steel tube.

anything past a 45 and snap

 

[Best]

The Y.T.W. - Yorkshire thin wall, was harder copper and I used it for some pipework that didn't require bending, - like on long vent pipes.
There was nothing wrong with it and I am sure it still is in plenty of homes today.
Only problem I found with it was it was confusing when you went to lift a large offcut of pipe that was perfect length for something you needed bent - and then discovering the red line down it.