Ever since we launched the Do-It-Yourself column earlier this year, I've been on a mission-literally hellbent on learning things that I should have already known how to do by now. While I don't ...

In this guide, we'll show you how to cut hard water cooling tubing made from Acrylic and PETG. Acrylic is by far the most popular material used for rigid tubing in water-cooling systems, but ...

Pipe and tube bending is known to be a less expensive method in the metal and plastic industry, compared to welding materials to join components together. It is the process of permanently shaping ...

Siemens Subsea upgrades to an automatic, all-electric Unison tube bender to speed production of small-bore hydraulic tubes for undersea oil and gas recovery. A rendering of Siemens subsea equipment.

An innovative new automatic cell for manufacturing tubular automotive parts exploits an articulated robotic arm to manage intervening movements and transfers. The arm eliminates the need for the ...

For auto-body structures, thin walled hydroformed and laser beam welded hollow steel sheet sections are recommended as a replacement for mainly spot-welded box-shape components. Such components have ...

We've got a prepared length of tube, so now let's have a look at how to do the actual bends. This involves heating the tubing until it's reached its glass-transition temperature. First up, though, is ...