(Text on screen): How to Use Hydraulic Pipe Bender Shoes the Right Way, Kevin Caron, www.kevincaron.com
The Voice: Hey, Kevin. What are you doing?
Kevin Caron: Well, you've got some pipe and you've got some shoes.
No, not on your feet. These go in the hydraulic pipe bender.
And there's a little trick to getting the right size shoe for the piece of pipe that you're using.
You look at all these, and every single one of them has a measurement on them: half-inch, three-quarter,
all the way up to two-inch. At least for this set.
So you just take a tape measure and you can measure the inside diameter of your pipe.
This is one inch and it fits here.
If you get your three-quarter inch, you notice that it doesn't fit.
You try to use this one, because you want to get that radius, you're going to kink it. You're going to make a big mess.
You're going to get the pipe stuck in the shoe. You're going to have to beat it out with a hammer.
So, this is the one you're going to start with.
Whatever the inside dimension is, the closest one you can get (oversize, not undersize) on your shoe, that's what you start with.
Now, a little trick, something that I use if I want to get a different radius, I can always start this bend in the correct shoe
and I can move up to a little bigger one that has a little bigger radius and just kind of smooth it out a little bit
without kinking it; without making a big mess out of it.
But you can never go smaller. You need a different size pipe to go smaller with.
The Voice: You mean different shoes have different radiuses?
Kevin Caron: Oh, sure.
The Voice: Show me.
Kevin Caron: Now, you see, here's the half-inch.
And here's the three-quarter.
And you can see this one's a much tighter radius than this one is.
So, if you try to force it; you know, if you had a piece of three-quarter inch pipe that you were bending,
but you wanted to get this radius on it, so you try to force it down even farther, what happens is
your pipe would hit the bottom of the shoe right here and you'd wind up with a kink.
That's where it would start to kink is on both ends, as you're sitting there trying to bend it around.
So, don't force it. Just go easy with it and you'll get there.
Hope that answers your question.
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