I’m trying to straighten out a piece of 1” PEX tubing from a 100’ coil and man is this stuff rigid.
I tried a technique of setting a heat gun on the concrete floor and trying to slide the PEX back and forth while bending it flat. I then decided to insert a length of 1/2” copper into it while bending to help it keep its new shape, then letting that cool. Does that sound like a logical approach, or is there some other way this can be done more easily?
In the future I would almost consider paying more for 5’ or 10’ lengths and just coupling it together along the way to avoid having to bend this stuff, but I don’t want to waste the coil I already paid for.
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I tried a technique of setting a heat gun on the concrete floor and trying to slide the PEX back and forth while bending it flat. I then decided to insert a length of 1/2” copper into it while bending to help it keep its new shape, then letting that cool. Does that sound like a logical approach, or is there some other way this can be done more easily?
In the future I would almost consider paying more for 5’ or 10’ lengths and just coupling it together along the way to avoid having to bend this stuff, but I don’t want to waste the coil I already paid for.
