Originally Posted by gpsparky
Take your Hickey bar along just in case

Umm OK, like you can bend galvanised thick-walled pipe with one of them?

In the end it turned out OK, I did as Greg suggested and marked the bit of scrap and found the take-up.

I also have to agree with Greg about the number of bits of pipe that are laid to waste in any given job.

The one good thing about the Bramley benders is that if you need to do a compound bend (ie: 2 bends in the same length of pipe), all you do is level the bender and the pipe with a level on each end of the pipe and one on the bender, you don't get a cork-screw, if you are lucky, or you hold your face the right way or the wind doesn't change during the bend. crazy