Double flare tool for tubing, need a good one.

[bobs409]

Pulling my hair out! I have a cheapy double flare tool for brake and fuel lines and the tube keeps pushing down the hole instead of flaring! I made a few successful flares with this in the past for small sizes but I need one for 3/8 and it's just not happening. I even tried putting extra clamps, vice grips and even the bench vice to cinch down on the line and it still slips.

Can anyone recommend a good one? I think I'm having a bad MONTH!!!!

This is what mine looks like:

 

[Rickys61]

I bought one of these Bob... search around, got it for around $400.... pricy but I absolutely love it. I wish I would have bought one 20 years ago....
https://www.ebay.com/itm/332090789839
Rick

 

[bobs409]

Can't go that high but thanks.

 

[Carmine]

My tool is similar to yours Bob and I also experience the same issues. I tighten those wings nuts the best I can. Sometimes they hold, sometimes not. A bigger problem for me are the rings left on the tubing from where it was gripped between the bars. Many times I can't get the male fitting to move to the end; where the flare is. I find myself having to do some filing. What a pita that is. I'd also like a better one, but $474.00 is a bit much for me. Maybe there is something in the middle, Carmine.

 

[Rickys61]

Can't go that high but thanks.

I bought every one imaginable in the style you posted... all of them ended in the same result... frustration!! You won't ever dread having to do a flare again..

 

[Don Jacks]

Why do you need a double flare on a 3/8ths. line.Take the bar apart and mill about .030 off one side,then add a flat washer to each nut.Cheap tools=cheap results!

 

[63 dream'n]

.......$179 on sale

 

[bobs409]

Why do you need a double flare on a 3/8ths. line.Take the bar apart and mill about .030 off one side,then add a flat washer to each nut.Cheap tools=cheap results!

It's for a fuel line. I tried a single flare but it leaked. This is going into a brass fitting made by Edelbrock. A single flare works on the fuel pump without leaking but not on this fitting for some reason.

 

[Ishiftem]

The Rigid I use works well.

 

[blkblk63ss]

Mine look's similar to your's Bob, it's either a rigid or imperial. I have not had any problem with tube sliding down. Maybe your's is wore out.

 

[skipxt4]

I bought a K-Tool International, from Summit. It was around $ 230.00 It works PERFECT, EVERY TIME. It looks just like, the one Eastwood sells. I've had it for 4 years . I wish I bought it sooner.

 

[oldskydog]

I use only single flare on my airplanes on fuel, oil, and 1500psi hydraulic with no issues on AN fittings.
I have a Parker flaring tool and it is great.

PARKER 37° FLARING TOOL

 

[La Hot Rods]

Imperial is what I have used more times than I would want to count.
Works good last long time.

 

[Jim Sullivan]

I have the same type flare tool you have Bob. Mine is a Blue Point from Snap On. Never had a line slip or any other problem with it. I also have the hydraulic flare tool that Rickys61 posted the link too. This works fantastic for all of the different types of flares and fuel line connections that it makes.

 

[61belairbubbletop]

I've been using a Rigid set for years. No problems. I've made many double flare ends for brake lines, fuel lines.

 

[Windingout]

Having sold tools for 31 years I recomend the Mastetcool hydraulic set that should sell for $400 or less. That is pricey for occasional use so Imperial is next best. Trouble free and it does what it is intended to do. The one in the pic looks like an Old Forge unit and does slip on the larger lines. The difference is the bar is 5/8 on the Imperial and 1/2" on the Old Forge style. Like everything else these days the Chinese have copied the Old Forge style and they come in many brands and different colored boxes. They are all junk. The Imperial should not cost more than $75 usd. Most of the tool trucks stock it or can order the Imperial set. Snap On sells the Imperial set under the Blue Point brand.

 

[chevy man]

It's for a fuel line. I tried a single flare but it leaked. This is going into a brass fitting made by Edelbrock. A single flare works on the fuel pump without leaking but not on this fitting for some reason.

Bob, I had a flare tool identical to yours and I threw it away ! I have tried to single flare like a 3/8 steel line but the steel lines I've tried just split without the double roll.
I wound up buying one from the snap on guy and it works fine.
Ken

 

[61BUBBLE348]

I have a Rigid set, and had a similar problem to yours Bob,
I rectified this by linishing the the mating surfaces, I think there are variations in outside diameter of available tubes, copper, steel and s/steel

 

[Carmine]

It's for a fuel line. I tried a single flare but it leaked. This is going into a brass fitting made by Edelbrock. A single flare works on the fuel pump without leaking but not on this fitting for some reason.

There's your problem; Edelbrock made something, Carmine.

 

[bobs409]

I bought a K-Tool International, from Summit. It was around $ 230.00 It works PERFECT, EVERY TIME. It looks just like, the one Eastwood sells. I've had it for 4 years . I wish I bought it sooner.

So what time should I expect you today?