Currently on my level 2 technical certificate in plumbing and have done a bit of pipe bending but still found myself boggled about how to do different offsets. This has really helped me to finally get it!
im new to plumbing currently studying at college. your videos are great. realy gave me a insight on how to go about things. keep up the good work and keep on posting.
Cheers for this! Watched your other two pipe bending videos and this one seemed the most simple and no-fuss! I'll use this tonight at my evening college class :D Might be good to make a video about plumbing health and safety? Can't find any decent videos about UK health and safety for plumbers. I'm doing the Level 2 Diploma city and guilds at college now and the health and safety unit is a headache!
This is a very informative video and made very entertaining at that too. As an instructor this person is not of the boring variety who makes you fall asleep and this makes the whole clip even better. Well done. Your videos are very good for my course.
The headaches i used to have when training & still did untill today, what an easy way round it that you have shown, like i said in one of your other vidoes, your not the best at what you do but your in the top 1 lol, cheers pal
Your videos are a massive help to me getting my pipe bending skills on point for college, so much that I recommend you to everyone on my course! Thanks for your time and effort toward helping new and existing plumbers
As I progress with my unpaid training I'm fascinated by the smart and intricate bends to copper pipe. Onto RUclips and the #plumberparts channel. Thanks for the clear video and the tips you give here James, brilliant stuff! I'll look for others but what a great starting point 👌
I'd like to thank you for this video. I had a pipe with pinhole leaks needed replacing. It had a 90 degree bend plus an offset, the prospect was quite intimidating, but this video made it look easy - and it was! In fact I think my pipe was a better fit for the space than the old one I took out! There's not enough real plumbers in my area - so they don't even return your calls.
These videos are so entertaining, great fun. Can you do a video on how to deal with older plumbing, like cast iron and lead drain pipes? How do you do the connections, say, on a bad toilet flange. I've only dealt with plastic but in the community I'm in now, older plumbing is very common.
Great detailed explanation so thanks a bunch for that. I have this exact job to do on a bathroom refurb so this is going to come in very handy. Thanks again and keep up the very useful and entertaining vids.
My head hurts ! i got up to the bit where your looking down the tool while lifting it ,wow all your help reminds me of a plumbers version of the thingy sailers use to read the stars ! So complicated ...thanks for vid ..
+plumberparts Much better this time, I tried it without the vise as well, took a couple attempts but I nailed it in the end. I'm working on different copper assemblies at the moment, using bends and fittings etc. I'm enjoying it more than I thought :)
Great video. Quick question though, how do you sort small offsets, of say 20mm? On the benders I have you can’t get the pipe into the grip for less than 25mm
I've no idea about plumbing and couldn't understand the markings. A sign of a good instructional video is anyone can understand it. This is the 3rd video I've watched and still don't understand the markings.
I have a very old pipe bender which has measurements around the former arch, mark the pipe with a felt tip and line it up on the set and perfect offsets. It has imperial and metric and I bought it at a trade fare in the 80s
Quick question, I understand this might not be the correct forum, scenario is, 15 mm copper tails coming through an already tiled surface, which is hard grouted. Is there a plumbing solution to levelling up a bar mixer, using conventional plumbing parts, plug for you there. I have seen the offset threaded systems, but they fit into a female receiver. Is there a solution, that can also utilise the chrome cover plate kits. Many thanks for your considered opinion.
Hi James, do you have a video, that covers how to measure between fittings? Calculating the fitting allowance on 15 and 22 copper? I am constantly cutting off slivers of pipe. Anything that shows how to work it out would be great. Thanks. Sarah
I’m doing plumbing at the moment at college and that’s the one thing that gets me I can do the whole thing then the offset fucks me over . I over bend it and put me out on the whole thing I did . Tutor made me do it all again . Can you do some more of those with other measurements video was really helpful
Loving these pipe bending videos, I'm learning this all at college at the moment but it's taught very different, and it's fine, but as soon as you've done it, you completely forget the way you done it, because they don't give you simple easy bullet points like this. I've wasted so much pipe today working out how to do certain bends I wasn't sure of, and now I've seen your videos its making much more sense. Please do video's on all the other college taught bends to, very very helpful!!!
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Just started my plumbing course and this helped loads 🤘 Question: the marks on the bender ie: the 45 mark....... do you line the end of the mark/line up with the centre of the pipe, or do you line the mark/line up so it’s parallel with the pipe, if that makes sense? Cheers lad 🤘👍
Great buddies, very helpful. I'm doing my Gas Safe course , three moths left, but I'm having trouble finding a company to complete the assessments with, any tip or advice. Thank Gee of GSD Construction & Maintenance Ltd.
all your vids are excellent tips for plumbing. But can you give any advice on plumbers who are just qualified and are trying to get our foot in the door? It's really difficult finding a job as I'm qualified but have no experience!
I had to do bends kinda like this today but I used a bendy spring thing. Those benders look way better to use. Ts there a tool u can get to reshape the pipe end after u've cut it so as the spring can insert easier? I had to hacksaw the end off each time and it was a faff. Cool vids btw eh mate
There's a tool called a De Burrer that should do the job www.amazon.co.uk/Monument-365f-Int-Pipe-Burrer/dp/B0001P0FY0/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1490541297&sr=8-4&keywords=DE+BURRER
What's the smallest offset you can do in terms of length of pipe? I know I leave the ends slightly longer, do the offset and then cut the ends to required size, but what about if there's only a slight kick needed in the pipe?
+Soul Flex Digital At colleges in the UK, they (in my experience of learning and teaching) teach the use of the "McEown Table". I had a "discussion" with one of the older members of college staff about why they did that, and he said it was because it was easy, and worked... Which it simply doesn't, or doesn't always, since it's based on a bend radius to tube diameter of 4:1, to which not every bending machine adheres. My own benders (both of them) are 3.5:1, for instance, as were the ones at the college I taught at. That means the McEown table is generally useless. (it doesn't mean the principle is useless, because it can be modified to suit your own bender) it just means the data on the table does not suit the benders. The "hook" on a bender can be different from another, too, and that can affect where a bend starts to form, which in turn alters its relationship with other bends. The amount of good tube I've seen consigned to scrap because of incorrect methods being taught...
Subscribed! Great channel mate, what kind of tube benders do you recommend? I've been looking for a 1/2" (15mm) bender. I wish we did more bending back here in Canada, it's rare, mostly in older houses, but it looks good.
Hi James. Annoyingly my bender dosnt' have any 45, 50, and 90 degree markings. I'm using a template and bevel to get the correct 40m measurement in the way i was shown at college. I place the side of the bevel along the centre of the pipe and carefully make the bend. But when I feel the the pipe is in-line with the bevel it looks like the pipe is no way near the same area on the former that yours is. Is this down to different types of formers and makes of benders? Ill admit that I did buy mine cheap from ebay. Many thanks.
Hi I'm replacing a single radiator for a double and pipes need to come forward a bit from wall and are coming up out of a concrete floor. I will be draining system off first as a precaution. Any advice on how to bend them forward say an inch or inch and a half. (Taking valves off heating pipe small iron bar down and gently bend????) Please help.
Say for example you're running a length of pipe along the skirting, and you have to put an offset in the pipe, what's the best way to measure out where the offset should start so you don't end up bending it in the wrong place.
Hey Plumberparts, I've just bought my first pipe bender it already has the 45 & 90 written on it ( you've written yours on) do i bend on exactly 45 on the bender or just before? thanks . hope this made sense haha
Hi, thanks for the useful videos. Could you please help me in installing a heavy ceramic shower tray brought from Italy tinkling that in London use concrete floor like Italy, but I realized that the floor in London made of floorboard ,how can I risre the shower in order to fit the plumbing work,and the back of the shower there is no holes to fit any kind of kit. Please help.
Hi, thanks for the useful videos. Could you please help me in installing a heavy ceramic shower tray brought from Italy tinkling that in London use concrete floor like Italy, but I realized that the floor in London made of floorboard ,how can I risre the shower in order to fit the plumbing work,and the back of the shower there is no holes to fit any kind of
@plumberparts Love the videos and have learnt a lot from you so thanks for that but I am struggling with this.... How do you bend a shallow offset of less than 15mm in 15mm pipe over a short distance of around 50mm? Have a decent pipe bender and tried many ways but all I have is a pile of scrap!
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All i can say is, after watchin this i reckon ive learnt more about doing an accurate bend than i ever did in college haha cheers mate,
Currently on my level 2 technical certificate in plumbing and have done a bit of pipe bending but still found myself boggled about how to do different offsets. This has really helped me to finally get it!
I'm currently doing my level 2 and I wish the teachers would explain how to do these bends the way you do. Thanks for your help
Your videos have been helpful specially for apprenticeships .
Thanks .
im new to plumbing currently studying at college. your videos are great. realy gave me a insight on how to go about things. keep up the good work and keep on posting.
Cheers for this! Watched your other two pipe bending videos and this one seemed the most simple and no-fuss! I'll use this tonight at my evening college class :D
Might be good to make a video about plumbing health and safety? Can't find any decent videos about UK health and safety for plumbers. I'm doing the Level 2 Diploma city and guilds at college now and the health and safety unit is a headache!
This is a very informative video and made very entertaining at that too. As an instructor this person is not of the boring variety who makes you fall asleep and this makes the whole clip even better. Well done. Your videos are very good for my course.
I'm currently at college learning pipe bending, the way I've been taught is good but your way is so much easier and quicker thank you.
The headaches i used to have when training & still did untill today, what an easy way round it that you have shown, like i said in one of your other vidoes, your not the best at what you do but your in the top 1 lol, cheers pal
Your videos are a massive help to me getting my pipe bending skills on point for college, so much that I recommend you to everyone on my course! Thanks for your time and effort toward helping new and existing plumbers
As I progress with my unpaid training I'm fascinated by the smart and intricate bends to copper pipe. Onto RUclips and the #plumberparts channel.
Thanks for the clear video and the tips you give here James, brilliant stuff! I'll look for others but what a great starting point 👌
Been doing this for two days. It's been hurting my brain. This seems pretty straightforward. Thanks 👍
Been in the game since 2003 still found this video really helpful! Keep up the great work James boy!! Hold tight!!!
Alot easier to remember this way compared to the way they want you to do it at college!, thanks mate
I'd like to thank you for this video. I had a pipe with pinhole leaks needed replacing. It had a 90 degree bend plus an offset, the prospect was quite intimidating, but this video made it look easy - and it was! In fact I think my pipe was a better fit for the space than the old one I took out! There's not enough real plumbers in my area - so they don't even return your calls.
No worries Mr Swanley! Glad to help. And you're right, there aren't enough plumbers about at the moment!
You did this in a really simple and easy way! Was doing a much more difficult way previously! Thanks!
No worries dude. Glad to help! SUBSCRIBE! ➡️👉 ruclips.net/user/plumberparts 👈⬅️ IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY! 😎
These videos are so entertaining, great fun. Can you do a video on how to deal with older plumbing, like cast iron and lead drain pipes? How do you do the connections, say, on a bad toilet flange. I've only dealt with plastic but in the community I'm in now, older plumbing is very common.
Thank you very much. you have out- taught my tutor who could not explain better. you rock.
Great detailed explanation so thanks a bunch for that. I have this exact job to do on a bathroom refurb so this is going to come in very handy. Thanks again and keep up the very useful and entertaining vids.
You're doing a great job mate.Well done and pls keep doing it!!!! Cheers
Will do!!!!
STILL AM BRO! 😂
My head hurts ! i got up to the bit where your looking down the tool while lifting it ,wow all your help reminds me of a plumbers version of the thingy sailers use to read the stars ! So complicated ...thanks for vid ..
Brilliant video full of enthusiasm and instills confidence in the task about to be performed. Excellent.
I like the angles etched on your bender! I’ll have to copy that
This really helped me pull offsets for my new toilet and kitchen run
I struggled loads with this at college, gonna try this method next time, hopefully it would cure me of this curse lol Great vid :)
+Spread I Like Hey no worries fella. How'd it go?
+plumberparts Much better this time, I tried it without the vise as well, took a couple attempts but I nailed it in the end. I'm working on different copper assemblies at the moment, using bends and fittings etc. I'm enjoying it more than I thought :)
Great video, just what I needed. Thank you!
thanks for the explanation.
No worries! Sorry for the delay in replying!
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your vids are the best mate!!!! great stuff thanks!!!!
Brilliant Videos , thanks always my first point of call for all plumbing help x
Neat trick, nice shed, thanks.
This will help so much and be way easier in college thanks for the video great videos as usual. :)
Great video. Quick question though, how do you sort small offsets, of say 20mm? On the benders I have you can’t get the pipe into the grip for less than 25mm
this is for only soft copper? or can you bend hard copper with this tool. i really like that tool.
I've no idea about plumbing and couldn't understand the markings. A sign of a good instructional video is anyone can understand it. This is the 3rd video I've watched and still don't understand the markings.
so funny mate got a laugh and learn at the same time that s good,thanks for tips
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I have a very old pipe bender which has measurements around the former arch, mark the pipe with a felt tip and line it up on the set and perfect offsets. It has imperial and metric and I bought it at a trade fare in the 80s
Top stuff. Whatever works for you!
Quick question, I understand this might not be the correct forum, scenario is, 15 mm copper tails coming through an already tiled surface, which is hard grouted. Is there a plumbing solution to levelling up a bar mixer, using conventional plumbing parts, plug for you there. I have seen the offset threaded systems, but they fit into a female receiver. Is there a solution, that can also utilise the chrome cover plate kits. Many thanks for your considered opinion.
Hi James, do you have a video, that covers how to measure between fittings? Calculating the fitting allowance on 15 and 22 copper? I am constantly cutting off slivers of pipe. Anything that shows how to work it out would be great. Thanks. Sarah
Great video mate cheers
Thanks James helpful video
I’m doing plumbing at the moment at college and that’s the one thing that gets me I can do the whole thing then the offset fucks me over . I over bend it and put me out on the whole thing I did . Tutor made me do it all again . Can you do some more of those with other measurements video was really helpful
Loving these pipe bending videos, I'm learning this all at college at the moment but it's taught very different, and it's fine, but as soon as you've done it, you completely forget the way you done it, because they don't give you simple easy bullet points like this. I've wasted so much pipe today working out how to do certain bends I wasn't sure of, and now I've seen your videos its making much more sense. Please do video's on all the other college taught bends to, very very helpful!!!
Nice video as always!!
Is this the technique to use for bringing the pipe closer to the skirting board from the underside of the radiator valve?
Very helpful. Many thanks!
excellent. Thanks very much.
brilliant mate thanks from cumbria
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Thanks! Great video and love your personality!
Thanks Dave, glad to help mate!
Excellent video and advise. 👍👍
Thanks for this video Bro!I just learned something new, Good job!!!
very useful mate!! cheers for that!!
No problem! Cheers dude!
Very helpful I’m training to be gas engineer
wickid channel mate this really helped me during my lv.1 plumbing course and still helps cheers. :D
No worries mate, glad you like it!
Very helpful thanks pp im doing alot of LCS work at the minute any vids on them?
Another great video. I assume this method would work the same on metal conduit? what about bend shrinkage ect?
very good video!
Thanks, this will help me✌
can you show us how to pull a semi cross over bend. I have tried watching other videos but they don't seem as easy to follow as yours
Will that 15mm former work with 10mm microbore with the insulation still on? That's like 13mm.
Vice! That's what was looking for! Thx
Just started my plumbing course and this helped loads 🤘
Question: the marks on the bender ie: the 45 mark....... do you line the end of the mark/line up with the centre of the pipe, or do you line the mark/line up so it’s parallel with the pipe, if that makes sense?
Cheers lad 🤘👍
Thanks
Love these vid...makes job so easy
Cheers dude!
You could always buy a crossover and solder?
Great buddies, very helpful. I'm doing my Gas Safe course , three moths left, but I'm having trouble finding a company to complete the assessments with, any tip or advice. Thank Gee of GSD Construction & Maintenance Ltd.
Please can you demonstrate off set in three fold.
how about a video on how to run a rad into a bay window with surface mounted copper? bend or solder?
What's the very smallest offset bend that can be done?
Nice one bruvvaa!
Hello PP,
could you do vedio for pass-over offset or pass-over bends please.
What is the heat mat
all your vids are excellent tips for plumbing. But can you give any advice on plumbers who are just qualified and are trying to get our foot in the door? It's really difficult finding a job as I'm qualified but have no experience!
Mike Mann Hi Mike, hows the work hunt going 5 years down the road?
I had to do bends kinda like this today but I used a bendy spring thing. Those benders look way better to use. Ts there a tool u can get to reshape the pipe end after u've cut it so as the spring can insert easier? I had to hacksaw the end off each time and it was a faff.
Cool vids btw eh mate
There's a tool called a De Burrer that should do the job
www.amazon.co.uk/Monument-365f-Int-Pipe-Burrer/dp/B0001P0FY0/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1490541297&sr=8-4&keywords=DE+BURRER
What's the smallest offset you can do in terms of length of pipe? I know I leave the ends slightly longer, do the offset and then cut the ends to required size, but what about if there's only a slight kick needed in the pipe?
You can anything down to about 2mm but it's really shallow! Regards, PP!
why don't they teach it like this at college..... if id watched this before my final assessment id have flown through it
Yeah I never know why either....
+Soul Flex Digital
At colleges in the UK, they (in my experience of learning and teaching) teach the use of the "McEown Table".
I had a "discussion" with one of the older members of college staff about why they did that, and he said it was because it was easy, and worked... Which it simply doesn't, or doesn't always, since it's based on a bend radius to tube diameter of 4:1, to which not every bending machine adheres. My own benders (both of them) are 3.5:1, for instance, as were the ones at the college I taught at. That means the McEown table is generally useless. (it doesn't mean the principle is useless, because it can be modified to suit your own bender) it just means the data on the table does not suit the benders. The "hook" on a bender can be different from another, too, and that can affect where a bend starts to form, which in turn alters its relationship with other bends.
The amount of good tube I've seen consigned to scrap because of incorrect methods being taught...
I'll be using the 2 ruler rule next week at college after watching this.
@@Daves1681 or maybe a square one
Great vid 👍😅
What about a measured length? How do you get the bend in the correct place. That's what's blagged by head tonight at college
brilliant stuff ,,I did that spot on 👍
Thanks dude, no worries!
Wouldn’t it be easier and less prone to error to use two 45° YF elbows with a short length of pipe inbetween?
Really helped thanks 👍🏻
Subscribed! Great channel mate, what kind of tube benders do you recommend? I've been looking for a 1/2" (15mm) bender. I wish we did more bending back here in Canada, it's rare, mostly in older houses, but it looks good.
+Dustin Thewind Hi Dustin, usually use Hilmar over this side of the pond!
Thank so much for your video
can you do this with harder metal like brass?
top stuff fella, big thumbs up...
Hi James. Annoyingly my bender dosnt' have any 45, 50, and 90 degree markings. I'm using a template and bevel to get the correct 40m measurement in the way i was shown at college. I place the side of the bevel along the centre of the pipe and carefully make the bend. But when I feel the the pipe is in-line with the bevel it looks like the pipe is no way near the same area on the former that yours is. Is this down to different types of formers and makes of benders? Ill admit that I did buy mine cheap from ebay. Many thanks.
Hi I'm replacing a single radiator for a double and pipes need to come forward a bit from wall and are coming up out of a concrete floor. I will be draining system off first as a precaution.
Any advice on how to bend them forward say an inch or inch and a half.
(Taking valves off heating pipe small iron bar down and gently bend????)
Please help.
Can you show a double off set mate please
Say for example you're running a length of pipe along the skirting, and you have to put an offset in the pipe, what's the best way to measure out where the offset should start so you don't end up bending it in the wrong place.
Yeah thas wot I wanna know as well! *_*
jismn Hmmm, should do a vid on that...will add to the list. Cheers guys! PP!
Is this soft or rigid copper? I didn't know any of this, thanks for making this vid. I have to bend 3/4" rigid.
Just standard old copper mate! SUBSCRIBE! ➡️👉 ruclips.net/user/plumberparts 👈⬅️if you haven't already!
i learn while i laugh.....brilliant
Hey Plumberparts, I've just bought my first pipe bender it already has the 45 & 90 written on it ( you've written yours on) do i bend on exactly 45 on the bender or just before? thanks . hope this made sense haha
Will a 15mm + 22mm bender work for bending imperial 1/2 and 3/4 pipe?
Nope!
great information thanks god bless ...
What brand of pipe bender is this.
Can you use EMT bender ?
Hi, thanks for the useful videos.
Could you please help me in installing a heavy ceramic shower tray brought from Italy tinkling that in London use concrete floor like Italy, but I realized that the floor in London made of floorboard ,how can I risre the shower in order to fit the plumbing work,and the back of the shower there is no holes to fit any kind of kit.
Please help.
Hi, thanks for the useful videos.
Could you please help me in installing a heavy ceramic shower tray brought from Italy tinkling that in London use concrete floor like Italy, but I realized that the floor in London made of floorboard ,how can I risre the shower in order to fit the plumbing work,and the back of the shower there is no holes to fit any kind of
Absolute legend
@plumberparts Love the videos and have learnt a lot from you so thanks for that but I am struggling with this.... How do you bend a shallow offset of less than 15mm in 15mm pipe over a short distance of around 50mm? Have a decent pipe bender and tried many ways but all I have is a pile of scrap!
Lik San Irwin Hilmore
So the line always has to be at the apex of the of the rim.dats where I was going wrong cheers
Can you make a square /rectangle coil using a pipe bender?
Not really as you'd not be able to get the bender in after a while...SUBSCRIBE! ➡️👉 ruclips.net/user/plumberparts 👈⬅️ IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY! 😎