On Aug 12, 4:48*pm, dpb wrote:
Ed Huntress wrote:

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Ho-ho! You must be in another newsgroup. Here on RCM, we'd machine a female
die from A1 tool steel, calculate a appropriate load of Red Dot powder and
primer, and re-shape the end with explosive forming. As a bonus, it would
really clean out the inside of that hose.

It couldn't take more than four or five hours of work to save us from having
to buy a $3 replacement end. d8-)

Chuckle...

I've done things like re-round them after crushing, certainly, but not
by explosive forming...

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Or hand write the G-code to CNC a pattern and then cast a new end. But
first you have to build the machinery and the furnace...