If you are talking about 7/8 & 1" stainless for pulpits you better find
someone with the right equipment or you will end up with a lot of expensive
junk. Sand packing works OK on softer material but is not really going to
help with stainless and 1" tube on anything under a 12" radius will require
hydraulics or a looong lever handle.

Bending polished stainless tube with decent results requires a set of
polished dies built to exact diameters. I built a couple of benders, a roll
bender for long sweeps and a hydraulic for the tight ones.
http://www.rutuonline.com/html/tube_benders.html
You can get plans and dies he http://www.pro-tools.com/200k.htm . A
set of dies for 1" tube costs about $180.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
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"Joe Bleau" wrote in message
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Anyone in this group had any experience bending SS tubing? I can do
basic welding of SS but am fuzzy on bending procedures. A couple of
tricks I have heard involve packing the tubing with sand and
construcing a wooden die to form the tubing.

I can visualize construcing a wooden form to do the bending but I can
not visualize how to force the tube around the form. Perhaps one
could use a come along?

Suggestions appreciated.

Joe