[TheForge] OT Looking For Tool

[Saint Phlip]

Thanks, Ries ;-)

Guys,I'm passing ALL of your comments along, but rather than fwding
emails, I'm just copying and pasting your comments, with your names
attached.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:38 AM, ries <ries at riesniemi.com> wrote:
> It has been a REALLY long time since these were in common use- and they were not for "pipe"- they were for brass tube.
> You can still get em for smaller diameter brass and copper tubing- Ridgid makes a nice one that goes up to 1".
> Above that, they sell pound in mandrels that flange thin wall tubing.
> http://www.ridgid.com/catalog/RT2004-076.pdf
>
> I dont think hand tools to flare inch and a half or two inch are still available, but there may be an industrial plumbing tool supplier that still makes em- if so, expect them to cost several hundred dollars.
>
> ries
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> On Jun 29, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Saint Phlip wrote:
>
> 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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>>> ekmg at lists.eastkingdom.org
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>>>
>>>
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Saint Phlip

So, you think your data is safe?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html?hpt=T2

Heat it up
Hit it hard
Repent as necessary.

Priorities:

It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.

.I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary
notices I have read with pleasure. -Clarence Darrow