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Old December 24, 2015   #31
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I think I will try using a 28 inch bicycle rim sandwiched between plywood sheets and well reinforced as a tubing bender. It would make a narrow tall hoop.
I had to use the fork of a tree before to make a long radius in a ridged copper pipe.

In the trade it is called field bending and done correctly there will be no links.


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