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Old 6th March 2011, 01:49 PM
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Default Tube beading & Oyster Tool

Most of you will have seen this video before http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omlIXsk-Y4k

And that recently B&Q seem to have stopped selling the oyster tool. Having missed out on them I just got my hands on one from -http://www.bes.co.uk/products/152.asp

Tool works great and with a little tweak to make a full ring then you can easily bead your own tubes
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Old 6th March 2011, 08:36 PM
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Cool Well done Dave

Thanks for posting that

Been hunting for one of those in all of my local B&Q branches, all to no avail .... Missed the boat as usual
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Been hunting for one of those in all of my local B&Q branches, all to no avail ....
Apparently some of the B&Q staff don,t know it as an Oyster tool, which doesn,t help when asking / looking for it . ( it was originally sold in the plumbing section )

Its a great little tool, done all my new coolant pipes with it, thanks to Spud for the loan of the tool

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I asked one member of staff for an Oyster tool & they sent me to the local Fish Market

Hunted high n low in our 4 local branches, plumbing section & the bargain bins
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I asked one member of staff for an Oyster tool & they sent me to the local Fish Market

Hunted high n low in our 4 local branches, plumbing section & the bargain bins
ah hem
excuse me mr bonzo
but you posted a picture/drawing of your own rendition of an oyster tool
a long time ago now granted
if you bought one now that would be cheating
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Old 6th March 2011, 10:13 PM
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ah hem
excuse me mr bonzo
but you posted a picture/drawing of your own rendition of an oyster tool.
cheers les g
Fair cop guv, I did it all

That will be this one ??



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a little trick i thort up was to solder a olive from a compression joint to the end of a bit of copper pipe
was my idea when i re piped some coolent hoses on a t3 transporter
as you can buy them for all sizes of copper pipe its a option for fuel coolent etc.
and as copper pipe is a dream to bend makes it an ideal choice for me
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