[Jewelry making - Article 01376] - Re: [Orchid] How do you bend silver tubing?

[dan . wellman]

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    There are tubing benders avialable for common copper pipe sizes,
    1/4", 3/8", etc. perhaps even 5/16", & 3/16" Outside Diameter.
    Imperial is a good brand of tubing tools. If you work with Air
    Condition parts suppliers they use the O.D. of tubing, plumbers use
    a "nominal" except sometimes in the small sizes. (1/2" nominal is
    5/8" refrigeration size) There are also different wall thicknesses
    etc. 

    I would use dead soft tubing and a standard O.D. size if possible.
    Imperial makes a nice little bender which functions kind of like a
    pair of pliers. This may work well for your purpose. 

Dan Wellman
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