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Re: brake line bending.
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Originally Posted by Fitz
A radius that large is easy to bend by hand. Gentle pressure works best. Here's a trick for you just in case. If you need to take the bend back out or work out the radius get a cotton handkerchief. Fold it in half and grip the hanky and the tube in your strong hand and squeeze. Then push and pull the handkerchief along the bend quickly while you squeeze it HARD. The friction will cause the tube to heat up making the inner radius of the bend expand reducing the radius. Do it long enough and you can completely straighten the tube and it will be arrow straight.
For all you guys who like to argue, go to your nearest golf pro shop and ask them how they straighten the shaft on a bent golf club. I don't want to hear from you until after you've done that.
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SHHhhh!, Listen...... that SWOOSHING sound you hear is the sound of all the guys that read this forum tightly gripping a length of bent steel tubing wrapped tightly in their folded cotton hankies in their strong hands trying to STROKE the bend out of it....
I'm KIDDIN'... I've got several pieces of tubing in the shop I've mis-bent. I'll try it.
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