Wood Steam bending

This video shows the LMS Carriage Association undertaken steam bending of wood for LMS Period 1 Third Open Carriage, 7828. For more information on the LMS Carriage Association visit http://www.lmsca.org.uk

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[ArtforArchitecture]

Hi! I really like your video and thought you may be interested in a steam-bending course taking place this summer, in the Lake District, I’ve messaged you with more details. Hope it’s of interest!

[alanlmsca]

@ArtforArchitecture Glad you liked the video. I'll take a look at the info, thanks.

[tuturura]

thank you so much!

i love youtube!

:)

[alanlmsca]

Your welcome. Hope the steam bending went well.

[OurOnlyHome]

@MrLeonard55 Yeah, they're dead quick and easy to use, especially as you usually only have one hand available! We got them from Screwfix, quite a few years ago.

[MrLeonard55]

Nice clamps.

[johnnyboy922]

very helpful surfaceradio. i would not have though of that.

it would be more useful if i could find a decent piece of wood. its all junk around here

[alanlmsca]

All you need is a supply of steam. We used a wall paper stripper and a steam clearer to supply the steam. We used a couple of old cast iron drain pipes with rags for lagging and sealing - you don't want it steam tight! PVC pipe might be ok, you'd just have to check that it doesn't met or go a bit limp. I think tape would probably not hold so probably better with rags and jamming the pipe in. Hope that helps and you get your wood bent!

[tuturura]

thank you very much, I'm gonna try it today, to build the steamer if i use a water boiler is ok? (the wood stick i'll use is not very thick, but i'm wondering how to bind the pvc pipe with the mouth of the boiler...just tape would work?

:S

could you tell me please how did you build yours?

thanks again for your time!

[alanlmsca]

Well, we left it about an hour from memory. The thing is once you get the wood out of the steamer you need to act quickly. So it looses it's plyability fairly quickly.  I would guess it is generally until the wood has cooled off. It may relax slightly as ours did a bit, so it might be better to slightly over bend. A quick search on Google brought up a ready list of useful sites covering wood bending. Hope that helps.