Irwin HILGLM Hilmor Glm Pipe Bender including The Guides & Box Hilglm, 15mm-22mm

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The Monument 2600K 15mm and 22mm is a best selling pipe bender. These are available in Monument brand widely available across the UK from plumbers merchants and e-tailers MON2600 2600K, Instinct® brand INST2600 from PHG independent plumbers merchants and also from UKPS plumbers merchants including Plumbase under Entity® brand ENT2600. When initially launched on the UK market Monument ensured that the hook stop was redesigned so as to not mark the pipe. The single sizes of each bender with their shorter bending arms and lightweight aluminium die casting makes each bender lighter to carry and the design of the 15mm-XV is small enough to fit inside a toolbag. Body and crossbar for 1/4” to 7/8”, 1/4”, 5/16”, 3/8”, 1/2”, 5/8”, 3/4” and 7/8” mandrels and Reverse Bending Attachment. Simply because they’re a well known brand in the plumbing industry, a tonne of engineers go for Rothenberger. Categories Products Review product Hilmor EL25 Pipe Bender inc Pipe Vice and 20, 25 Formers - Code T090700B

A. Cheap thin copper but even expensive copper ripples. But makes a big difference with running wire wool over the guides first. Keep them clean. Found the wee monument benders don’t ripple the pipe as much. Great wee benders (Answered by Roy Millar Plumbing and Heating on 26 Jan 2021) And let’s face it, two separate guides just mean you have two more things to lose, and two more things you’ve got to find in your van every morning. A. Over the years been a few reasons, main reason I find or is poor quality copper! Other reason dirt on the guides generally a good clean and oil or dw40 sorts it out, had once with bender that had been dropped and it was slightly twisted (Answered by B H heating solutions on 26 Jan 2021) But when it comes to buying new ones, I guess it’s Silverline that stands out as the biggest contender to Hilmor. Peter Braine began working for the tube bending London company Hilmor in 1952. The company was founded in 1926 by John HawesCopper isn’t cheap so that’s money right there, going to waste. More importantly, it’s wasting time. When Monument look to design, manufacture and market a new product we look to create products which will save the engineer time. In this particular instance, we have designed a smaller and lighter weight pipe bender than the standard combination 15and 22mm hand bender. Getting an accurate bend by hand isn’t always easy. But, our Spring Benders can help simplify things. Four different benders are included… So, why do we use the Hilmore GLM tube benders, when there’s quite obviously others around the same price, and even more on offer for much less. The nylon guides are integral to the pipe bender helping to ensure they don’t get lost or damaged in a toolbag. Codes for these spare guides are 1216N 15mm Spare Nylon Guide and 1223J 22mm Spare Nylon Guide.

A. Cheap thin wall copper doesn’t help the issue, there was a batch a few years ago that was actually snapping. Damaged formers or the guide on bender itself can also do it. Or guides, formers that are not clean (Answered by PG Plumbing on 26 Jan 2021) The 15mm/22mm guides on the Hilmor copper pipe benders are integrated. No swapping out when you change the size pipe you’re bending, and nothing to lose. Irwin Hilmor GLM 15 and 22mm pipe bending machine. Used for copper up to 22mm and stainless steel up to 15mm this comes complete with formers and guides for 15/22mm.The Monument single sized pipe bender measurements can be seen in the image. 15mm standard version is approximately 460mm and the standard 22mm version is approximately 670mm. Combi Bender 2600K MON2600 We have included bending angles of 30 45 60 and 90 degrees on the XV and XVL 15mm versions and an additional 75 degree angle on the 22mm version; these are easily visible on the Former of each bender. If you’re installing a whole run of heating/gas pipe, swapping out the guides is going to turn into a real bug-bear. They weigh under 500g, and that’s pretty-lightweight, but they certainly provide more than enough power to get the job done.