[TheForge] OT Looking For Tool

[Saint Phlip]

OK,thanks. I passed that along.

Do you, by any chance, happen to know if that tool had a special name?

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Paul Sperbeck <forge at wi.rr.com> wrote:
> 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?
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> 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>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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