Hold the copper pipe in your hands and bend it.
Bent copper sheet.
Clamping your sheet metal to the straightedge is a must.
Let the copper pipe cool down a bit so that you can touch it.
Next put your wooden or metal form blocks in the vice and clamp your sheet of metal between the forms.
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Step 6 use a blow torch.
To clamp efficiently lay your sheet metal on the top surface of your straightedge with the drawn line perfectly aligned with the outside edge of the sheet metal.
Otherwise the sheet metal is almost certain to shift as you bend it resulting in a bad bend.
While you can bend this copper with your hands to get a sharp 90 degree bend you must use a sheet metal brake.
Wear gloves as the copper pipe will get hot while using the blow torch on it.
If your sheet metal is long ask a friend to stabilize the part hanging out from the form blocks so it doesn t affect the bend.
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20 gauge copper can be cut with heavy duty snips or sheet metal shears.
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Step 7 bend the copper pipe.