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Nige wrote:
I need to bend some 22mm copper pipe into quite a wide radius curve -
is it possible to use conventional pipe benders to do this (the type
with long handles)?

It's just that from looking at them, they appear to have a fixed radius
former - or is there a way of increasing the radius of the curve you
make?

No - they work at a fixed radius, unless you can buy other formers.

Above all, I need to produce smooth curves - is there a better way of
doing it?

The other common ways to bend pipe is to use a spring, or fill it with
sand, plug the ends then bend it to what you want.

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