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Re-Heat and Straighten Misaligned Pipe

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How you ever seen 3” PVC Pipe Heated up and Bent Manually? Father and Son Electricians do, Thoughts?

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What happens here

An issue arose where the back-to-back 90-degree bend was not perfectly straight; the pipe was observed to be crooked between the bends. To rectify this, the misaligned section of the PVC pipe is re-inserted into the 1000-degree hot box to re-heat and soften it. Once pliable, the pipe is carefully straightened by hand while still hot, with the assistance of a helper to ensure it cools and hardens in a perfectly straight line.

Goal: Correct a crooked back-to-back 90-degree bend.

Tools and materials

  • Heat-resistant Gloves — Protecting hands from high heat
  • Helper — Assisting with holding the pipe straight during cooling
  • Misaligned 3-inch PVC Pipe — The pipe requiring correction

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the spring ends. Why you must have a spring. And now we can pull out. That's a big slinky. Chris, you're an idiot. You're pulling the damn slinky out. You pull the damn slinky out. So now we can see how this thing will fart because my son wasn't paying attention. I went straight straight there. Bang. >> Nice. >> Now, let's make sure we're straight, Chris. That, my friends, is how you bend 3 in PVC

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