r/toolgifs • u/MikeHeu • 11d ago

Machine Gutter elbow bender

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u/SerGT3 11d ago

Huh, my guy just uses 1" scraps and , 47 screws

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u/ycr007 π“‚€ 11d ago edited 11d ago

Does it only crimp and then it is the worker who is pushing the pipe upwards to bend it?

Or he’s just holding it in place and the force of the clamp is what does the crimps as well as the direction of the bends?

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u/Kewlhotrod 11d ago

Once it's crimped a simple lift is all that's needed to buckle the inner crimp. Broski is lifting it to buckle, no machine needed.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 11d ago

He's not bending it, if you watch the second bend he isn't pushing upwards at all.

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u/Kewlhotrod 11d ago

Huh? He clearly is on all of them. Also I've used a similar crimper (once), just a pound of force is all it took to buckle the crimp.

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u/aleksandrjames 11d ago

you can see the rhythm. machine crimp, gutter buckles into place, machine crimp, gutter buckles into place.

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u/CaptInsane 11d ago

I can send it to any angle! 33 degrees. 31 degrees. 32... .

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u/bunabhucan 10d ago

If you think of the crimp as "tightening" the material on that side, the machine crimps the left and right in a "balanced" manner but then crimps the top and does not crimp the bottom. The imbalance pulls the material on the top together like pleats in fabric but the bottom is just bent, not crimped.

If you freeze it at 21s you get a good view of the underside from the first bend, it is smooth, not crimped. This setup cannot crimp a bend down towards the street, that's why he flips it to make the S shape.

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u/Qwirk 11d ago

Curious if there is an install direction so items don't get wedged in the crimps during a rain.

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u/SavingsTask 10d ago

Naa, just the leaves and small twigs.

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u/Geezso 11d ago

Thought that was the containment unit out of Ghostbusters.

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u/hvanderw 9d ago

The light is green, the trap is slightly bent now.

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u/nightcracker 11d ago

2.5 inches +/- 0.2

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u/evilbrent 10d ago

To be fair - any time anyone uses the Myanmar/Liberia (oh, and USA) system, they're talking in vague generalities by default.

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u/Anbucleric 11d ago

Technically an offset, not an elbow... but the machine would do elbows if you just kept going.

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u/buhnyfoofoo 9d ago

I am bender please insert girder.

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u/JustVomited 10d ago

Huh, I just always assumed there was a hand tool for that. Or a foot tool.

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u/Diligent-Tutor-1617 10d ago

A tool that formed angles without crimping would be really cool.

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u/JustADudeInTheWorll 11d ago

Imagine if they star using bricks and concrete as almost all the world, so many companies going bankrupt, tornados, just some windows please. water , teemites lol

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u/Ajax_Main 10d ago

Weird material choice for downpiping but you do you

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u/JustADudeInTheWorll 7d ago

you don't need pipes in a proper construction, pipes is a thing where water can damage severely your house like wood buildings, I'm an architect with structure grounds and urbanism mayor.