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Show Bending Copper Pipe. The motorist who likes to carry out his own repairs will sooner or later find himself him-self face to face with the difficulty of making a sharp bend in a piece of copper cop-per tubing or pipe. For anything over 5-16 of an inch in diameter, the pipe must he temporarily filled with lead or sand. It is pospibie, however, to make very fair bends In the ordinary copper tube bv heating it at the desired place in a Bnn'-sen Bnn'-sen flame till it is red and then rooMnc it in water, after which it is bent very gradually round a bar held in a vise. The amount of constriction will be very slight, especially after touching up with a ball-pein ham n e r, if this n ; e 1 1 : od i a carefully carried out. |