Subject: baidarka "unbending" aluminum tubes
From: Chris Burkhart (baidarkas@home.com)
Date: Fri Feb 16 2001 - 21:50:43 EST
Hi Doug,
True, you can't undo extreme bends in the aluminum tube. However, Mr.
Holsclaw and I became a little too enthusiastic while bending the tubing for
my Dyson baidarka. Here's the trick I used to fix my overbent tubes: Drill a
hole of the thickness of the tubing into a woodblock . Insert the tubing
into the hole and manually (with as much control as possible) slowly work
the tubing. It worked fine for the 1/2" tubing. The 3/4 might be too strong
for that method. But I'm sure you could come up with something for the
larger tubes.
I also found that it was less messy to smear the vaseline into the Holsclaw
Tubing bender instead of the tubing itself.
:-) Chris
>banged around in rescues, etc." the trick with the holsclaw is Vaseline the
>tubes, go slow since you cant unbend a tube and be prepared to waste a bit
>of tubing until you get the hang of it.
>
>Doug
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