Pros of Mandrel Tube Bending

Mandrel tube bending is a common bending solution in the automotive, furniture, gym equipment, aerospace industries. Why the mandrel bending is so popular in these industrial applications?

Pros of Mandrel Tube Bending

Bending tubes with a mandrel offers many advantages and the key factor of mandrel bending is to support the tube during the process of bending.

Mandrel pipe bending starts from pulling the pipe over the mandrel and is held in a fixed position. When starts bending, the bending force is acting on the mandrel and supports the inner radius of the pipe, and holds the pipe firmly into the pipe bending die.

If you are going to bend the thin wall tubing or tight bend radius, the wiper die is needed to work with the mandrel. For bending this type of material, the tube is very easy to buckling or wrinkling under compression without the wiper die.

In general, bending tubes with a mandrel in any type of bending machine can prevent the common bending issues.

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