Swagelok Advanced Tube Bending
Swagelok Advanced Tube Bending
Objectives
- Optimize your tube installations by learning practical tube bending techniques
Content
- Explain three variables that must be considered when bending tube
- Describe springback, how it affects the bending process, and ways to compensate for it
- Identify the components of the Swagelok hand tube bender
- Explain the purpose of the straight tube length mark on the name plate
- Explain minimum length of the last leg and describe how this length can be used
- Explain the purpose of the three types of marks used in the Swagelok method of tube bending
- Calculate the length of tube used in an offset given all necessary information required to make the calculation
- Bend tubing into a shape as specified by a template using the Swagelok method bend data, and tube bender
- Identify five potential bend defects and explain their causes
Who Should Attend
- Fabricators, installers, technicians, contractors, engineers and managers involved in designing and constructing tubing runs for process and analytical instrumentation systems
Additional Information
Available in 2-, 3- and 4-day options, with each day adding important new skills:
- 2-Day Course: Receive full instruction on using hand tube benders up to ½” diameter
- 3-Day Course: Add detailed education on using bench-top tube benders
- 4-Day Course: Augment your skills further with training on how to use electric tube bending equipment
If you're interested in a briefer refresher course covering the fundamentals of reducing connections and leak points with some focus on bending techniques, learn more about our Swagelok Essentials Tube Bending training.
Registration
Email fieldservices@swagelok.com to request private training at your site. We will follow up with full details.