Posted By: Chilort
Rolling a bead into copper pipe - 01/13/10 10:55 PM
I've got a '68 Sweptline and I'm replacing the heater control valve and the heater core. The control valves aren't made any more. I have to use a generic control valve and add a tube to it to go through the firewall. The stock tubes have a lip rolled into the pipe.
I've been to machine shops, old school car shops, and radiator shops and no one seems to have the equipment to roll the bead into the copper pipe to make it like stock.
I know that:
1) Eastwood sells equipment to do this but I ain't spending $600 to roll two beads
2) I could just flare it.
I want this to be as original as possible but if I cannot find someone that can roll the bead in then I will just flare it.
If there is a shop or person in the Atlanta area, heck, a shop or person within a 200 mile radius of Atlanta that can do this, let me know.
Here's what the stock end looks like:
I've been to machine shops, old school car shops, and radiator shops and no one seems to have the equipment to roll the bead into the copper pipe to make it like stock.
I know that:
1) Eastwood sells equipment to do this but I ain't spending $600 to roll two beads
2) I could just flare it.
I want this to be as original as possible but if I cannot find someone that can roll the bead in then I will just flare it.
If there is a shop or person in the Atlanta area, heck, a shop or person within a 200 mile radius of Atlanta that can do this, let me know.
Here's what the stock end looks like:
. I hear their stuff is top notch but like you I'd only be rolling several beads.
must have been around the block a time or two and been there done that
