Soft tubing bend formers

Petrolhead · 2 Oct 2020 at 19:39

I am surprised no one has come up with a clear plastic bend former that sits behind soft tube to make bends look neater

andy_mk3 · 2 Oct 2020 at 21:20

Thing is with soft tubing is you want to avoid forced bends to avoid kinks. Just go hardline if you want it to be pretty

Petrolhead · 2 Oct 2020 at 22:05

Well it was just a thought for those who do not want to use hard tube. A bend former could be made with soft curves and different angles

Reality|Bites · 3 Oct 2020 at 03:21

or the could just make cheap clear plastic fittings? maybe from the plumbing section in a hardware shop?

Petrolhead · 3 Oct 2020 at 05:34

clone · 3 Oct 2020 at 12:22

Or go xflow rads as they can make soft hose loop cleaner as i have 2 in mine.

Petrolhead · 3 Oct 2020 at 13:33

I saw a vid comparing flowers against normal

he made them sound special. open a bonnet of any car and what type of rad will you see

Hakanese · 5 Oct 2020 at 15:56

If you have the cash for all the fittings you could do a mixture of soft -tubing to hard tubing, but it would require a bunch of connector fittings with male/female ends. so you use the soft tubing on the bend and straight hardline pieces on the
straight runs

Ploppy2k3 · 5 Oct 2020 at 20:43

there used to be these clip on thingies that were designed to stop tubing kinking by forming a neat 90 degree bend. Never really saw the point as a 0- degree is not an issue unless really tight but the clip on's were a good 5" long so not a hard bend at all.

Also there were the spirals that wrapped around tubing that looked awful in most build. Again to stop kinks but most people never needed them.