Chromium plated copper tube - bendable?

[Tony Bryer]

Short question: can you bend chromium plated copper tube or will the plating crack off?

[Rob Morley]

It will crack.

[Christian McArdle]

It's about luck. Some crack, some bend. Try not to go too sharp or too long on the bend. For guaranteed results, you can bend standard pipe and then take it off to be chrome plated.

Christian.

[John Rumm]

Buy decent tube and it will bend just fine in a pipe bender...

[Gordon Henderson]

I put some minor (less than a right angle) bends in a couple of chrome pipes recently with a pipe bending spring. It didn't occur to me that the chrome might crack, however it seems all OK.

Good luck!

Gordon

[Andy Dingley]

Yes, so long as the tube was moderately annealed during manufacture. The stuff supplied for bathroom plumbing is usually OK, the straight pipes for gas fitting aren't..

You're more likely to scrape the chrome off than to crack it off. Use an internal bending spring, not an external former.

[Doctor Evil]

Not so. Chrome pipes for gas fires are bendable.

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[John Stumbles]

I've bent a few pieces of 15mm Chromed and been pleasantly surprised to find they didn't crack (as I'd feared they might). In one case I did a 90degree bend (with the pipe bender, not a spring) for the pipe to a shower rose.