Mastercool Flaring Experts advice needed!

[GregWeld]

Bent Fab -- or Pure Choice

The stuff you're getting is nasty. Sorry.

[Sti_Guy]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Bent Fab -- or Pure Choice

The stuff you're getting is nasty. Sorry.

Just ordered 36 feet from Pure Choice, it should be here when I get back from Alaska and ill post up how it compares.

Thanks Greg.

[GregWeld]

Welcome buddy.

Have a good trip.

[Sti_Guy]

Picked up new tubing from Pure Choice, after 5 flares no change in the outcome at all. The tubing seems to be no different then what I already had.

Id be really interested to see what other peoples flares look like. Mainly the issue is the tube not able to slide down the tube all the way.

[GregWeld]

Dude ----

Okay -- seriously -- I did this just for you after reading your latest post... went to the shed - grabbed my camera - and made up a piece of 3/16" SS tube with a double flare - using my hydraulic MasterCool...

Okay here goes pictorial

Whacked off a perfectly good flare - for you...








REAMED the inside... you can see the reamer I use on a DeWalt bat drill





NOTE THE NICE INSIDE REAM JOB...





Load the blocks and the tube - the tube needs to be flush with the end of the blocks and the blocks need to be flush and square in their nice little holder... you DO NOT NEED TO GORILLA the blocks to hold the tube - just give her a nice snug... there are plenty of serrations inside the block to hold the tubing with just a little effort....




Done with both operations -- so first the proper die for the first op - then the 45 die to finish - this is what it looks like all done in the blocks. I UNTHREAD the hydraulic --- enough to be able to load the die - then thread the hydraulic until the die is into/touching the tube - then I close the hydraulic valve and squeeze - when she stops - I back off the hydraulic knob - and unthread the hydraulic so I can get the die off/out.





DONE! DUDE -- this just ain't rocket science!










Now it's ready to meet it's fate in one of these little dandy bender dudes...

[Sti_Guy]

Yeah its not brain surgery at all, if it was id have a lot better tools. Anyways looks like my results are very similar to yours, BTW nice pictures. I have the same procedure, cutting, deburing etc so nothing new locating the tube in the same place in the fixture making sure its flush. I think the issue is in the tube nuts. I'm reusing OEM ones and I'm guessing they have less room to allow the tube the flare, since its obvious the tube nuts you are using slide all the way down to the flare shoulder. Ill pickup some tube nuts this week and see how it comes together.

[317millhand]

kind of blurry, but heres on of mine on some 3/16 using the same procedure as greg