Re: tube flarring tools
[Re: btomasko]
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06/12/17 10:44 PM
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RapidRobert
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A cheapie will work good for single flares. here's a BTT for ya.
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Re: tube flarring tools
[Re: btomasko]
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06/12/17 11:07 PM
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therocks
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Ive used my Blue Point from Snapon for over 30 years.Cant beat itfor double and single flares.Ive done probally thousands of flares at work and home with it. Rocky
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Re: tube flarring tools
[Re: therocks]
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06/12/17 11:43 PM
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I replaced all of my brake and fuel lines myself. All with a cheap harbor freight kit. I think it's a little less about the tools, and a little more about the user's attention to detail. Good luck
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Re: tube flarring tools
[Re: FrankenScamp]
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06/13/17 12:57 AM
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I replaced all of my brake and fuel lines myself. All with a cheap harbor freight kit. I think it's a little less about the tools, and a little more about the user's attention to detail. Good luck Lots of truth here. I have 3 flare tools of various pedrigree. They all will only flare as good as I prep.
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Re: tube flarring tools
[Re: therocks]
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06/13/17 08:41 AM
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Ive used my Blue Point from Snapon for over 30 years.Cant beat itfor double and single flares.Ive done probally thousands of flares at work and home with it. Rocky Me too, my first and best set came from Snap on and has blue point on the tool. It is actually made by Imperial Eastman and is the best there is in tubing tools. Since then I lent it out and a couple of the inserts got lost, helped me decide years ago not to lend tools out no more. I still lend out my engine lifting chain about 3-4 years ago and I can't remember for sure who I lent it out to. When will I learn not to lend out tools? Now I need it.
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Re: tube flarring tools
[Re: btomasko]
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06/13/17 11:55 AM
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therocks
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Challanger I broke a few of the inserts but they were warrantyed.I bet in the last 30 plus years Ive flared more lines than people could count.The rust belt is rough onlines.My kid bought a setup at Summit for like 10 bucks.It was clearance and works OK also.Rocky
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Re: tube flarring tools
[Re: Jeremiah]
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06/13/17 12:53 PM
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First of all use 90/10 copper-Nickel alloy for the tubing. It's easier to flare, doesn't rust and isn't that expensive. It's used by many auto makers.
Second if you're fabricating lines off the car, then the expensive Eastwood tool looks nearly foolproof.
Third, Buy the best tool you can afford. If the little tubing holder teeth weren't formed properly and the tube slips backward as you apply pressure, it isn't much of a tool, is it? I don't care if some of you are able to make double flares in steel tubing using a tool from the "all tools $4.98" bin, it doesn't work that way for me.
Fourth, the Imperial Eastman tool has been the standard of the industry for about a century. The max wall thickness they list matches nicely with DOT approved brake line sizes. See below. First are DOT approved sizes, second is the max wall thickness chart from Imperial Eastman. R.
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Re: tube flarring tools
[Re: Ply72rr]
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06/13/17 01:24 PM
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Had my eye on that one for a long time...need....thanks for the reminder
Rich H.
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Re: tube flarring tools
[Re: RTSE4ME]
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06/13/17 03:12 PM
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One nice thing about the Mastercool is you can make flares on the car. By the time you buy a good 45 and 37 flaring tool the Mastercool is not that expensive. I just have cheap flaring tools that a friend gave me and they work fine for single flares with mild steel. Who uses single flares on steel? Not a good idea because of the seam on steel tubing and why double flares are used. Now single flares in soft tubing is the normal in like copper and aluminum. I have made many AN aluminum lines with my 45° flaring tool. The type of fitting where you slide on a nut and then a 37° fule on aluminum tubing. I flare the aluminum to 45° and when I tighten it down the first time it is flared the last 7° against the fule and male AN fitting. Have done it dozens of times and never had one problem. So you do not need a separate 37° flaring tool for soft line AN tubing work.
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Re: tube flarring tools
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06/13/17 05:03 PM
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RTSE4ME
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Who uses single flares on steel?
Stainless steel fuel line to AN?
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