Hi Barry
What you need is the Sykes Pickavant kit, these are v expensive but they do
do the job just like the factory, I picked my kit up s/h at a little tool
shop in town that specialise in s/h tools and little squares of paper with
witty comments written on them! I only paid a fraction of the true worth of
my kit, and it came with collets and tools for up to 1/2" pipe, as well as
the bits for the European metric flares for car size pipe. The retail on
this kit is a couple of hundred £ but I have seen the base kits for a lot
less.
Graham.
----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 6:02 AM
Subject: Re-flaring lines-
>
> I've heard many references to re-flaring brake lines and have always been
a
> little puzzled. I have tried to re-flare the typical steel 3/16 O/D brake
> lines and with the flaring tool I have, and I have never been able to do a
> decent single flare, never mind a double. I could see possibly 1/4 inch
or
> bigger fuel lines but the wall thickness of these small brake lines, plus
> their small dia make it virtually impossible with the flaring tool I have.
> I end up just pushing the tubing through the clamp. Now maybe it's the
> tool. The one I have is like two bars, with various sized holes, that
> have groves supposedly to hold the tubing, for various size tubing, with
> what looks like a a battery terminal clamp remover to make the flares. As
> I mentioned this doesn't work on brakes and I gave up trying. I would
> truly love to make my own, but haven't really seen anything that will
> successfully make the double flare necessary for brake lines.
> What tool do those of you who've actually done this use, and was the flare
> every bit as good as the factory one?
>
> Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
>
> 72 PI, V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
> 70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
> 70 Spitfire (long term project)
>
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