Re: Brake pipe flaring tool
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 4:49 am
prezoom wrote:... I have never tried to do a "bubble" type flair, but figure that it can be done with the new tool.
Anybody had experience doing the bubble type flair with the standard type tooling? If so, any hints?
Rob Walker
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Rob, according to the Dave Bean catalog write-up, many experienced folks get intimidated by the bubble flare. It is simply the first step of the double flare. Try it out and just stop at the first step. I found the standard tool does it fine, even the cheap one; cheap tool only caused me grief on the second step. As mentioned above, protrusion has to be correct or you will leave a mal-formed burr at the end of the bubble.
Great tips. Another tip is you can see in Andrew's tool array the pointed tool used to de-burr the interior of the tube prior to flaring. The cut has to be perfectly perpendicular as well.