Tricks For Straightening Curved Vinyl Tubing

It is fine for every other piece of tubing but this i need straight.

Tricks for straightening curved vinyl tubing.

Boil the tubing in the water for five to 10 minutes. It stretches it out a bit as it straightens it. Turn the burner on high to allow the water to boil. Then pull like an old style parking brake.

You have to take into account the waste where you clamp it. Also a blow dryer will get plenty hot i think. Apply transfer tape to your decal and scrape it down do not remove paper backing yet. Immerse the coiled tubing into the water.

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. How to straighten pvc tubing. Straightening vinyl tubing for a observation hive entrance tube. I heard about this and decided to give it a shot.

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. Design and cut out vinyl decal with a cutting machine or buy a decal weed off the extra vinyl. Thirding hot water but please use tongs. 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.

Clean your tumbler with rubbing alcohol and let dry. I needed to straighten 1 4 copper tubing for an intercooler core. It also work hardens it a little and keeps it s shape.