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Im a cheap skate and do most mods myself on all my RC junk.
I saw a few threads about bending tubing but no real answer so I thought id take ya through the process as my simple mind sees it.
I decided since I had a bunch of alum tubing lying around to build myself a few 540 motor cooling rings. Trying to get those tight bends by hand is nearly impossible, and using the tubing benders is out of the question and the springs will make the bend too large.
Step1 cap one end of your tube with tape
step 2 Fill the tube with salt or sugar, I use sugar it packs in harder and tastes better when you blow out the tube, fill the tube to the top then tp the taped end on the table a few times and the sugar will settle some, repeat as many times as necessary until there is no more settling, then seal the other end with tape.
Step 3. lay the tubing on a table and place your motor on top of the tubing, to get the bend to start, hold the motor tight to the tube and gently roll it around the motor, try not to apply all the force in one location to start, once you have a small amount of roll going around the motor you can roll it as fast and tight as you wish then until you have reached the ends.
Now slip out he motor and knock and blow out the sugar in the tubing, now rinse it out to make sure there is no residual in the tubes. now you are done.
Ill replace the blurry picture when I roll some more. Hope it helps someone
I saw a few threads about bending tubing but no real answer so I thought id take ya through the process as my simple mind sees it.
I decided since I had a bunch of alum tubing lying around to build myself a few 540 motor cooling rings. Trying to get those tight bends by hand is nearly impossible, and using the tubing benders is out of the question and the springs will make the bend too large.
Step1 cap one end of your tube with tape
step 2 Fill the tube with salt or sugar, I use sugar it packs in harder and tastes better when you blow out the tube, fill the tube to the top then tp the taped end on the table a few times and the sugar will settle some, repeat as many times as necessary until there is no more settling, then seal the other end with tape.
Step 3. lay the tubing on a table and place your motor on top of the tubing, to get the bend to start, hold the motor tight to the tube and gently roll it around the motor, try not to apply all the force in one location to start, once you have a small amount of roll going around the motor you can roll it as fast and tight as you wish then until you have reached the ends.
Now slip out he motor and knock and blow out the sugar in the tubing, now rinse it out to make sure there is no residual in the tubes. now you are done.
Ill replace the blurry picture when I roll some more. Hope it helps someone
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