Maya Help with Bending

I am working on a tutorial on Chain-Mail but when I try and bend the Mail it won’t bent, so let’s say I want to bend it around a character’s waist, when I add the Deformer > Bend it won’ t effect anything.

Cheers
The Non-Super Hero
Khelton

One possibilty is you don’t have enough (faces) or more than one face on the area of your object where you are trying to bend it.
Hard to say what could be the issue without seeing the model.
I don’t use Maya, but Max.