Double flare brake pipe flaring tool
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- The best double flare steel brake line flaring tool ; for the price.
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Great little tutorial here.. Nice to see an Irish guy doing the instructions.. More of these please.. If you have the time..
Greeting from Waterford..
FWIW, this tool is made in TAIWAN and marketed under many different names. Mine is TITAN. Eastwood is another.
cracking video my friend ,very grateful to you.
The tool is called the Powerhand Flaring tool. It can be found on Ebay by typing in the name of the tool. It comes from the UK and is about $50 U.S. plus shipping. I'm definitely getting one.
would have been great to see a close up of the finished flare from the side. I received this tool in the mail yesterday. I have made five flares in the nickel copper tubing. I have made them using the depth stop and also 1/16th inch short of the depth stop. In all cases, the flare has a slight wrinkle in one side. I am thinking that the form is defective and the two halves miss align. My lines are installed. Six flares total, four with the ubiquitous old style flaring set and two with the new tool. None seem to leak. The new tool makes a better flare but is not perfect.
Yes, this is a good indication of inferior tooling. If you want the "perfect flare" both halves must be symmetrical. But I use my Harbor Freight tool and have had no leaks thus far. One thing I want to stress to those that are DIY bound, make sure things are CLEAN. It doesn't matter how good the flare is if you have 3lbs. of CRAP stuck to it. This applies to ANY job you are doing, prep work is key, especially using adhesives.
Are you really working on an American or Japanese car that uses double-flared SAE or JIL pipes? Most of us work on European vehicles which use DIN/ISO fittings and are mushroom-shaped ends. Using the wrong fitting will cause potential leaks. there are two anvils available and most on eBay are the double SAE end type. It might be best to get both anvils.
Excellent video make it look easy,do you have to use a double flare for both male and female fittings, or a single flare for one and double for the other?
There is only one thing wrong with this otherwise great little tool.It only does SAE flares, not DIN flares despite somewhat misleading claims. It even shows how to do DIN flares in the instructions despite not being equipped to do so. If you want to do DIN flares you have to buy the identical tool but for DIN, and then they dont do SAE. Therefore this doubles the cost if you need to do both. Its a shame because with a little design mod it could have been made to do both. Its also alarming how many people cant differentiate between DIN and SAE despite it possibly causing an accident, or at least leakage of hydraulic fluid. Its worth checking out the A--P6FT tool which is very similar but does both at the same price.I dont know who does it.
Nice job, of course Copper is always much easier to do than steel line. - Does that tool do other sizes as well?
Each tool does one specific type of flare and tubing size... from what I've seen.
Thanks for the tool review , bought her , done the rear lines on the jeep , flew the re-test !
Anyone know if this tool can perform bubble flares?
I've seen one for DIN and one for SAE bubble flares. I went through 3 other rubbish flaring tools before this one, and this one works awesome. It also leaves no tooling marks where it clamps around the tubing. I had to order mine from the UK, since I could find no one selling these in the US for the DIN bubble flare.
Useless at flaring metal pipes , the metal pipes slide in it , the cheapo one you spoke about actually flared the steel pipe
Good to see it works, time to get one. Thanks.
Nice looking tool, but not seeing this particular tool on eBay.
Nice. Small and compact and does the job. Thanks
great for doing on the vehicle in tight spot.
A fantastic tool. I have one. Ignore the Cheap G clamp type , they barely have enough pressure for copper, and forget Nickel. This one does both with ease. I used it to replace corroded sections where the pipe joins the flexi pipe. Easily mated new bits of pipe onto existing good pipe, whilst on the car. Passed MOT without issue
Its made in the UK too!
That tool might be steel, but the brake line isn't that's nickel copper line and the cheap flaring tools can do those. How does that tool work on STEEL lines, that's what I wanted to know, title your videos correctly.
It works perfectly on steel lines.
If you are cutting short an existing steel line to attach a replacement line this tool will put a which can perfect flare on the old steel line even in a tight space on the car. It will of course also make up your new line in softer materials. Sometimes need to scrape back any coating on some steel lines which can cause even this tool to slip slightly. This it the tool to do the hard job of mating up copper to steel especially when space is tight
much easier with copper tube in Australia not permitted to use copper brake lines how easy is doing bundy steel lines
This is just what I need! Got a rusted pipe in a wheel arch, this will save me having to renew the entire pipe back to the ABS pump. Now I can flare a steel pipe 'on the car' and join it with copper.Thanks for the vid.
Copper will NOT withstand the pressure from the brake system for the length of time a steel line will, and if you use copper an cause an accident, whoever put the copper line in is liable for any damages caused in the accident if resulting form installing improper and inferior parts on an automobile.
+Matthew Gregerson I and many other mechanics I know in the U.K have replaced hundreds of brake lines with copper over many years and never had any problems with it.If you take a car to a garage here and need a new brake line, 99% of the time it will be replaced with copper.Never heard of anyone having an issue using it. Even with our very strict annual car MOT test, copper is not recognised as an improper repair. Just had had the car concerned 'MOT'd' with the copper brake line- no issues passing the inspection or brake test rolling road.
Well as a mechanic schooled and licensed in the US State of Michigan, it wasn't NOT legal back 25 years ago, and it's NOT legal now.
Living in PA now, I know the annual inspection also states that is not a proper repair method, copper is NOT rated for line pressures in automotive braking systems, manual OR powered.
+formidable38
Check out AGS Nicopp it is DOT approved for brake hydraulic systems
Severe braking conditions require up to 1200psi Read where Nicopp is rated at 3000 psi
you can Google it (Nicopp Product Categories). It is actually better than
steel lines in that they don't corrode like steel lines do. I have had a brake line burst and it was because the line rusted from salt and its no fun not having brakes. Hope this helps
Then why do european car builders like vauxall and mercedes use this? They sure as hell last longer then ur domestic crap. Brake line rarely brake of force, they do rust really easy though. That is in my opinion why copper is better.
Hi,
Very usefull video. I am looking into buying one of these of ebay for making SAE bubble flares. Will I need to buy unions with the beveled 45 degree hole to match up with the angle of the flare? Just confused as din flare unions have the flat edge and Im not sure sure these would match up correctly? If you could help it would be great, thanks!
nice tool i bought mine under a different brand name, its coming out of a taiwan factory atleast stated it. mine has the chrome metering bolt for pipe length.
Only does 3/16 not 1/4
Got one of these on order. Need to do exactly as you described, cut the rusty part of steel pipe out and replace with copper.
Good to see it works well, didn't fancy using the flaring tool I have with pipes still on the car.
nice work , nice job all by hand looks just like factory
Can a double flare be made using a bubble flare tool is my question, or am i gonna have to buy a double flare tool also?
so will it do steel lines also great if it does
it is inportent to make sure you tighten them both equal .. as i have seen in a second some tool s snap
Good review. I made the headache of a mistake thing the Harbor Freight double flare tool would work. What a piece of junk. What is the name\model of this flare tool?
I made the mistake of wasting money on the Sealey one..
The die snapped the second time I used it and each time it just crushed the pipe end
There's a double and single flare tool and a modern din iso one too!
very good video you made it look very simple thanks
I totally agree, this is a great tool!
Me too
now sold in finglas auto .greate video.
GREAT video, thanks for sharing, VERY usefull...tried searching for the tool, couldn't find it... where did you order it from? Thanks again.
Ebay.
what is it called i cnt find it either power hunt flaring too;l ?
I would have liked to seen this demonstrated with steel brake line cooper is very soft and easy to work
It works the same, at least mine used too until I lent it to a muppet.
so did it work on brake lines? what u thin5
don't know if in other countries but in Australia copper tubing is illegal on brake lines
It's probably copper nickel, stronger than pure copper.
I have a mazda badged Ford Ranger intended for the Oz market (own it in UK) - all the brake lines are copper-plated steel. Think it's to do with Oz being a country that has some unsealed roads. OR maybe all 4x4 have steel? Problem is they end up rusting here because they salt the roads.
@@mcplutt It'll be pure copper, which is perfectly legal and very common for brake lines here in the UK and Ireland, and indeed much of the world.
Just do not understand why you do not put stop cap n first
paul black so you have the right amount of pipe inside the tool.
@@GreaseMonkeyFix You can screw the stop in all the way, then push the pipe into the tool until it touches the stop, hold it there and tighten the two clamp bolts. That's what I tend to do.
Where did you get that tool from man?
terry366, EBAY. All the best Paddy.
I got on to him last night man and it'll be here Monday/Tuesday... Great video man keep em coming...
I've bought from terry366, good seller, reasonable postage. thanks for the no bull, honest review video, it will do steel pipes too? yeah?
Those are the wrong flares for those fittings.
Wrong!!!!
YES you got it WRONG Nothing wrong with them flares
Temper temper... Go have a cup of tea and take a chill pill, there's a good lad.
Okay had my Tea & no change your still wrong
Theknotman1964 lol. ok
The American equivalence of a 16 MM is 16MM..
SAE will not fit.
the equivilant of 16mm is 5/8"