Brake Flairing Guide

[danilo]

That Inside flaring tool is Marvelous. Admittedly a limited use item But it's certainly tempting. Apparently I've never looked deeply enough at Aircraft Spruce although I've bought from there in the past.
I discovered Cheap flaring tools made a complete mess of double flares in steel lines. Erm Would one use any thing other than steel for a brake line?

Paying a shop for their time and skills is often the cleanest solution.

[baz-r]

steel brake pipe is only std fitment to prouduction cars realy as cheap hard and rusts. almost all is copper or cupro nickel as it can be formed into bends lasts longer and swaged easly.
i dont know if you can get replacment steel pipe anymore?

[rapidtornado]

Think I'm gone mock mine up in the plastic coated stiff wire you get from garden centres then take my fittings and pipe down the local garage where I get all the cars MOT'd and ask them if they can do it.... think it will be cheaper than buy expensive kit and they are less likely to balls it up than me

[baz-r]

Originally Posted by rapidtornado

Think I'm gone mock mine up in the plastic coated stiff wire you get from garden centres then take my fittings and pipe down the local garage where I get all the cars MOT'd and ask them if they can do it.... think it will be cheaper than buy expensive kit and they are less likely to balls it up than me

as long as you get the length and ends right you need made in copper then you can bend your pipe easly by hand around a bolt or can to get the radius you need

[Davidbolam]

has anyone ever used one of these and are they any good??

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=p5197.c0.m619

[robo]

[quote=baz-r;68778]as long as you get the length and ends right you need made in copper then you can bend your pipe easly by hand around a bolt or can to get the radius you need


Dont forget if you get them made up to remember which end is convex and which is concave.

Bob

[baz-r]

iirc all sierra stuff is convex for male, concave for female (m10x1.0)

[brainbug007]

Sorry to dig this thread up... Finally getting round to trying to learn to flare. Am I right in thinking that for the convex for male ends (single flair) I just use the tool with the dye in to make the 1st flair? And then to make it a concave (double flair) for female ends I just remove the dye and do it again?

[AnguS]

i have a snap-on one that must be nearly as old as me, used to be my dad's, and after using it last night i can confirm it still works as good as it did when he had it....

half the battle with these tools, is cutting the pipe square, and deburring it the same every time
that and propper placement of the pipe before you start winding

the other half is remembering to put the nut on first!