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Corrugated pipe tool
matt
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Posted: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 - 08:12 PM UTC
How much interest in a tool to make corrugated steel pipe would there be? you'd form some metal foil over it & just twist the form out. Each one would be a few inches long depending on the diameter.

Possible sizes:

12,15,18,21,24,30,36,42,48 inch diameters. I could go bigger but they'd be more costly.

TIA for the input!

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Posted: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 - 10:39 PM UTC
Hi Matt,

I would have an interest, I have a road repair/construction diorama in the planning stages ( Vietnam War), could use corrugated pipe for culverts.
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Posted: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 - 10:52 PM UTC
What size would you be looking for?
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Posted: Thursday, December 04, 2014 - 02:10 AM UTC
So when you twist out the form, the corrugations are spiral?
matt
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Posted: Thursday, December 04, 2014 - 05:48 AM UTC
Yep. Thats how the smaller pipe is made. The cad model is fighting me at the moment..
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Posted: Thursday, December 04, 2014 - 09:05 PM UTC
What a co-incidence! Masterpiece just announced their own Corr-U-Gator (a couple of items above).
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Posted: Thursday, December 04, 2014 - 09:18 PM UTC
That is a co-incidence isn't it Biggles2! My thoughts exactly. We will see how it plays out...

matt
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Posted: Thursday, December 04, 2014 - 09:18 PM UTC
Yeah, but with that it's more difficult to get the true "twist" that the pie has.

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Posted: Thursday, December 04, 2014 - 09:52 PM UTC
Our tool easily makes standard corrugated piping and arches as seen here in this image. It also produces the spiral style as seen in the second image.



Without using our tool you cant state it is more difficult to make this style of pipe. This literately took 30 seconds to make via our Corr-U-Gator tool.




By the way, straight corrugated pipe is still in use along with the spiral. Not all piping is spiral spun.
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Posted: Thursday, December 04, 2014 - 11:25 PM UTC
I should have said appears.... Which size corrugation is it, as it appears to spaced out for the smaller pipes which are typically spiral wound. Larger diameter yes, panels are the way to go.
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Posted: Thursday, December 04, 2014 - 11:36 PM UTC
The current tool that is available for purchase now has a scale profile of approximately 76mm oscillation.

We have several other sizes and scales ready and queued in our production line for release soon.
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