[TheForge] old tool

[Bob Ehrenberger]

I have several candle holders that require a flared lip on a large tube. 
They are easy to make on the edge of the swage block and a ball pein hammer. 
It takes about one heat per tube, just hold it in the recess with a little 
bit of the tube extended above the block, gently tap the inside edge as you 
rotate the tube as you work your way around. If the tube gets distorted you 
can true it up on the ball of your vice screw or the horn of your anvil.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net

 ---------- 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
>>