"Cicero" wrote in message
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"Stuart" wrote in message
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:26:25 GMT, EricP
wrote:

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:08:44 +0100, Stuart
babbled like a waterfall and said:

Does 10mm pipe solely come in coils or are there sources of straight
lengths .If not is there a good way of straightening it neatly .?
Stuart

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I use an external spring to straighten my 8mm pipe so the same technique
should be reasonably successful for 10mm - assuming that you've got a 10mm
external spring. It doesn't give perfect results but it's much better
than
trying to straighten it by hand alone.

Somewhere, in my 'too good to throw away' box; I've got a
plastic red bending tool for 8mm, the tool has a curved
90 deg 'track' at one end _and_ the handle is 'drilled'
for 8mm piping - the theory is; one draws the pipe
off the coil through the handle and forming 'bends'
where needed. It seemed to work mostly ... it helped to have
one person 'drawing' off the piping while another person
held the coil and the plastic forming/straightening tool.

Can't remember where I bought it - t'was almost thirty-years
ago.

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Brian