Clint Eastwood used to say that "any good man must know his limitations". Well, apparently my limitations include trying to bend the 1/8" tubing that we commonly use for our fuel tanks. It collapses on me every time. I bought a set of those springs that you're supposed to insert the tubing into before bending and I still can't do an adequate job. I thought I remembered somewhere that you should fill it with sand before bending to keep it from collapsing, but putting sand in a piece of fuel line tubing just doesn't seem right.
What's the secret? How are you guys getting those nice tight bends in your tubing? I'm guessing that there's some type of nice, small, tubing bender that everyone has, or else I'm just inept at this. I have a very nice tubing bender that I bought for doing things like brake lines and small automotive stuff, but I doesn't work well with the 1/8" size tubing. What am I missing here? Is it some kind of special tubing? Maybe I need to heat the tubing? HELP!
Thanks guys.
Vince