[SPAM] RE: bending an aluminum header

[Anthony Romano]

The guys at Mac advised me against heating. Just use more leverage.

Anthony

>From: Bob Richards <bob at toprudder.com>
>Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
>To: discussion at nsrca.org
>Subject: RE: bending an aluminum header
>Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 07:11:31 -0700 (PDT)
>
>A friend of mine, who has a background in metallurgy, used to bend aluminum 
>tubes and pipes by filling with water, freeze, then bend. IIRC, he said the 
>cold made it bend easier, and the ice inside would prevent kinking. But, my 
>memory aint what it used to be. :-)
>
>Bob R.
>
>
>Michael Ramsey <michaelr at modelaircraft.org> wrote:
>If you're worried about kinking, consider filling up the header with a
>fine grain sand and plugging both ends of the header before bending.
>Instead of a dowel, use a pipe over the header to leverage the end of
>the header into the position you want after evenly heating the header.
>
>Michael Ramsey
>


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