[TheForge] OT Looking For Tool

[Paul Sperbeck]

Wow that is a blast from the past... I remembered that tool as soon as 
you started to describe it.
They were available for 1.25, 1.5 and 2 tail pieces and often came with 
a die to thread them also.
I have been looking for one myself for so long that I retired before I 
found one.
While the tool is really cool, with a steel block that has a small 
radiused edge, it is possible to form the flange without the tool. We 
would used a pliers to start the flange then work it over the edge with 
a small ball pien hammer until it was 'flanged' then finish the diameter 
with a file and possible smooth the working face with a little sand 
cloth on a block of wood to flatten it.... still looking for the tool 
myself, although the described procedure has saved my bacon when I need 
a flanged tailpiece and none was available.

paul

On 06/29/2011 07:02 AM, Saint Phlip wrote:
> Got a guy here looking for what is apparently an extinct plumbing
> tool. Anybody got  any ideas who might sell them or otherwisewhere to
> find one?
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> From: Carl Veach<chasveitch at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:08 PM
> Subject: [ekmg] OT Looking For Tool
> To: East Kingdom Metalsmiths Guild List<ekmg at lists.eastkingdom.org>
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> Anyone with a plumber in the ancestry? A fellow Scadian is looking for
> a specific type of plumber's tool last seen in his fathers kit in the
> '60s. The drain pipes that attach to the bottom of a sink did not come
> with premade flanges at the time. The desired tool was used to make
> the flange, a flaring tool for 1.5" pipes. The description of use
> sounds like using a can opener, attach at the end of the tube, as the
> tool works around the tube a flange is formed. I had never before
> heard of this tool and his brothers claim ignorance of its location.
> Looking for help.
> Thanks,
> CV
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