HAUTMEC 3-in-1 Hand Manual Tubing Bender Bending Tool 1/4" (6mm), 5/16" (8mm) and 3/8" (10mm) OD HT0004-PL

useful tool for occasional work

Bottom line is that this is cheap and does the job. Is it the best quality item you can buy? Nope. But it does not have to be as long as you use this as intended. In fact whilst the name this is sold under is clearly just another Chinesium knock off, punted out under a number of names, it's identical to one I remember on an old ship I worked on as Chief Engineer.That one lasted a number of years without breaking and, if it survives shipboard work it can survive anything.It's a metric pipe bender for small bore lines. It approximates to equivalent imperial/standard with no issues. In fact I bought this for my home as I was fitting a split AC unit to my house and the pipe typically used for domestic installations for the smaller units is 1/4" and 3/8". As I have a dislike of badly run pipework - a legacy of many years on ship's - I wanted to install my unit with neat lines and correct bends on the pipework.This did the job well leaving me with pipework of correct radius and nicely fitting.Overall, a decent bit of kit for the money. Which, isn't much.

The media could not be loaded. As people may see from the hit and miss from the other reviews, the product that I got was particularly poor. The sled isn’t aligned with the grooves and the 10 mm groove wouldn’t fit the pipe as you can see from the pictures and from the amount of filing I had to do. Despite all of that work, I need to use the pipe bender in advice and heavily Poole towards the right looking at it from the front in order for the pipe to be straight. In addition to that the projection from the base of the pipe bender which provides the rest for the pipe when bending it dents the pipe itself. I had to file it with the round file you know that this not to occur. Definitely not impressed. Also considering the amount of waste copper as it was totally unusable as it was

Works fine so far.Seems to be exactly the same product as sold by brand name manufacturers.

Great price and well constructed ,for the non plumber you will need a bending spring which fit inside the pipe to prevent the collapse of the pipe when bending.

I had to drill the pivot rivet out to adjust the alignment so that it wouldn't distort the tube. I was using it with 10mm.

Exactly how it works well

I searched brake pipe bender this came up I did not realise it was to big so no good