Bending Stainless Steel Pipe With Heat. For example piece of one inch pipe will seem to have a greater diameter than a piece of one itch tubing. The pipe was 3 4 and 2 schedule 40 316l stainless steel. Clamp the stock in a vise.
If you do not have access to a press brake your other option is to use an oxy acetylene torch to heat the rod. This method tends to damage the tubing however.
I cold bent nearly every piece of this job with a greenlee electric conduit bender.
Play the flame back and forth along the line keeping. The specifications called for as few welded joints and flanges as possible. Welding of stainless steel. I am bending pipe by hand without the help of a t.
