Tricks For Straightening Curved Vinyl Tubing

Apply transfer tape to your decal and scrape it down do not remove paper backing yet.

Tricks for straightening curved vinyl tubing. Immerse the coiled tubing into the water. Thirding hot water but please use tongs. I heard about this and decided to give it a shot. Boil the tubing in the water for five to 10 minutes.

The heat will soften the tubing allowing you to reshape it into a long straight line. It stretches it out a bit as it straightens it. Any of that tubing i ve fooled with in the past is dead soft so it should straighten pretty good without a lot of springback. Then pull like an old style parking brake.

Clean your tumbler with rubbing alcohol and let dry. How to straighten pvc tubing. You have to take into account the waste where you clamp it. Fourthing hot water but depending on the weather in your area sitting it out in the sun on a hot day for an hour or two might even be enough works even better if you can find a patch of asphalt or other dark surface.

I needed to straighten 1 4 copper tubing for an intercooler core. An old steamfitter trick is to clamp one side down then clamp the othe side to the bottom part of a lever. Straightening vinyl tubing for a observation hive entrance tube. It also work hardens it a little and keeps it s shape.

I m trying to connect a radiator and pump directly beneath it but my tubing was bent because masterkleer sells it in tight rolls around 40cm in diameter. Also a blow dryer will get plenty hot i think. Probably would be best to make the v s with a couple 45 cuts and then nibble out the wood between the v s to a depth that would create flats at a depth equal to half the tube diameter so that the dies would contact the top and bottom of the tube as well as the quarter points along the v s.