Copper Tubing Flaring Tool

Tim Carter, of AsktheBuilder.com, demonstrates how to flare the end of soft copper tubing to produces leak-proof joints.

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• copper
• flaring
• tool
• soft
• fitting
• brass
• tim
• carter
• as
• builder

[rabbithog]

i reduced the thickness of the largest hole by putting some sticky draught excluder around the inside radius but the pipe still just slides through without making the flare on the tube, complete waste of time

[AsktheBuilder]

@rabbithog It sounds like you've learned something by all this and by sharing your failure, you've helped others. Bottom line: Get the right tool to do the job. Flaring tools work. This video is evidence of that. Save your money and go buy a proper used or new flaring tool.

[rabbithog]

that was quick, thanks, can i improvise on the clamp i have got, tho only hole i can put the 15mm pipe through is 5/8, all the others are to small, thanks for your time

[AsktheBuilder]

@rabbithog You can try. Wrap the pipe with a thin piece of rubber. Good luck.

[rabbithog]

ok, i am using a flareing tool to flare the top of a piece of 15mm tube i am tightening the pipe holder as tight as i can get it but when i use the flare former it just pushes the pipe through the pipe clamp what am i doing wrong?

[AsktheBuilder]

@rabbithog Sounds like the clamping hole is the wrong size. It's too big.

[alectricfoxx]

This a great video. Quick as it is, you really show the most essential parts for this procedure. For 3/8" (inch) Cu (Copper) Class J, Soft Copper tubing (and the 3/8 is the Outside Diameter ( O.D. ) : when you use that type of "vise" , use a ¢5 nickel; place the tubing past the flare well on the tool the thickness of a nickel, that will produce a flare on the tubing that matches the flare fitting without going past the "flare". Be sure that the end of the tube is filed and deburred. =^.^=

[sharic4]

Tim, you would be a great teacher....

[cailleachthehag]

This was great and I went out to get a F.Tool $20.00 to help with a swamp cooler fix. How stupid was I. The tubing was supposedly 1/4" but it was from stupid H. Depot which very well may be 1/4....on the inside, doesn't fit most 1/4" fixtures. Am replacing 30 ft with true 1/4" from Ace Hardware. Am not happy with the original installers Airsmiths, Sacramento CA. They wouldn't even call back on another (gas heater) question.

[momoxsparco]

Thank you for the video! I am redoing the fuel lines on my car and doing a filter conversion. Im going to need to use different fittings and such and really had no idea how to use the flaring tool. Now i understand completely and am confident that i can get the job done. Great video man

[rabbithog]

thanks, i think i need to get a metric clamp, i think their is a slight difference in our measurements, if i was on site where would i get a piece of rubber if i needed one lol