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  • From: "Elijah Smith" <elijah@hilobay.com>
  • To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Bending Metal
  • Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:15:39 -1000

When I exhaust the internet and my own imagination, I turn to you guys...

Out here in Hawaii, there are a lot of greenhouses built with metal pipe
framing and plastic covers. Often, the pipe is bent into graceful curves to
create arches, corners, etc. I want to make, not buy, a greenhouse but I
can't figure out how to bend the metal. A few comments:

I don't want a PVC greenhouse - I want something big I can climb around in.
I'm aware of "conduit benders" used with electrical conduit... however,
they only give a bend of a certain radius. I've considered using these
anyway, since a bunch of short bends spaced out over a pipe will give a
long, deep bend, but since that's the only solution I've found, I'm still
thinking it over.
The one person I've asked, point-blank, "how did you bend that pipe", won't
reveal his secrets, but says that he "uses hydraulics" and can bend any
shape I can draw.

So, I put it to you free-thinking creative types. Any good ideas?

Thanks!
Elijah





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