In message , Sparks
writes

Err ... you posted a link then asked where you could get what was at that
url

I wasn't sure, as I though a flare was a small (as in a couple of mm)
spread.
The tool they used to connect the A/C pipe to the compressor was indeed a
flaring tool, it had the pipe clamped in a vice type thing, then a cone was
screwed down onto the pipe and did somthing like this to the pipe
http://www.extremecooling.net/pics/1/1/werkzeug/12.jpg
A nut was put on the pipe before flaring, then screwed to a connector like
this on the compressor.
http://images.orgill.com/200x200/1187723.JPG

The tool I am talking about is a swaging tool (I just rememberd the name!)
Rather than just a flared edge, it ended up like this
http://uniweld.com/images/online_cat...07_action3.jpg

I think I have answered my own question now, excpet does the screwfix
flaring tool
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?id=15190 do swaging too!?

Is ther any disadvantage to doing this?
(Other than the fact that a 15mm coupler is only £0.0636 and a 22mm is only
£0.149!)
(Payback in about 140 22mm fittings - well less, as there is only 1/2 the
amount of solder used!)


When I replaced my boiler, I had one of these tools to hand - whack it
with a hammer - pipe fits inside pipe, job done

No solder!?!

Bugger - I knew there was something I shouldn't have done

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geoff