[TheForge] [OT] Re: Cats, boots (Was: chickens)

[Jerry Frost]

That's the ticket Pete! Fill those with water and freeze em! Of course you 
COULD stop by a muffler shop and ask to use the pipe expander but that'd be 
cheating I suppose.

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter fels" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
To: <mspencer at tallships.ca>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" 
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Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] [OT] Re: Cats, boots (Was: chickens)


> To buy them Mike..
> You need quoins of the realm.
> Port-a-powert clamshell attachments spread a small space ,but aren't 
> parallel.
> Machinists have a similar sort of step block set, but they lack the 
> pinion-like tool.
> On a recent project, i needed to expand the inside of a shaped copper 
> tube..
> Annealed it and went to the Home depot and bought a  rubber bulb ,sewer 
> line plug that inflates with a hose.
> I have 130 PSi water pressure and blew out 2 of them before the job was 
> finished.
>