Manual profiling: scope, advantages and disadvantages

One of the problems in the construction industry is the bending of pipes and metal profiles. Previously, in order to get the construction of the necessary form, builders had to make a lot of effort and spend a lot of time. However, this lasted until until the light appeared bending hand (roller profile). With the help of such a tool, you can now quickly turn a regular profile or corner into a complex structure, and most importantly - in as short a time as possible. How the profile manual is arranged, in which spheres it is applied, you will learn in this article.

Areas of use

This tool is used in many industries:

• nautical;
• Furniture;
• Power;
• Automotive;
• Petrochemical;
• Building;
• Electric.

Purpose

The manual profiling is used for forming and bending profiles and corners of rectangular cross-section, including beams, bars and channels. All this metal-roll takes absolutely any form, because with the help of a pipe-bend it is possible to twist those or other products up to 360 and more degrees and without limiting the radius. In addition, it is possible to bend in different planes. The tool makes it possible to make a circle from a corner or a spiral from a metal pipe. Also worth noting the presence of special baits, thanks to which the possibilities of manual bending are significantly extended. The use of these attachments allows the formation of products of the most complex shape, the profile can be made with exact correspondence to the parameters of curvature.

Advantages and disadvantages

The main advantage of this tool is first of all universality. Due to its design, it makes it possible to work with square and round bars, corners, strips, pipes, square and rectangular profiles. In addition, this device does not have any motor, which significantly reduces the cost of the product and significantly increases reliability. The failure of the hand-operated pipe-bender happens rarely. And the main plus is that the output is really high-quality products with a form that was supposed to get in the beginning of work.

The main disadvantage is that the formation of products with the application of physical strength, and it does not matter whether you made hand-made profiles by hand or bought in the store. This means that to obtain the necessary form of the product requires a tremendous effort. As a consequence, it is possible to use such a device only for small amounts of work. For industrial purposes, the profile arm is not used manually. And he can not handle larger pipes. The maximum that it can bend is rolling with a cross section of 4x4 centimeters.

Conclusion

Thus, manual profiling can be used only in cases where it is necessary to bend a small number of metal products with a small diameter. Such devices can be useful for laying a water pipe in a house, heating, manufacturing a greenhouse, a skeleton for a visor and other household needs.