I think in the same isle that you found the copper tubing there is a sheath you can buy that will slide over the tubing and allow you to bend without kinking. Hopefully you can slide the sheath over that and bend it back, but it might be tough without trying to bend it a little more with you...
Noob here (if you didn't guess by the title).
I bought a kit (irish stout) and brewed up my first batch 2 weeks ago.
I never crushed my grains as I thought they might already have been crushed (i don't remember answering the question online about crushing or not), although now looking back I...