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Re: Swedging

Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2008-05-07 06:34

IMO that Ferrees collet tool is one of the best tools Ferrees has ever made.

I use it when I want to tighten a sloppy pivot tube around the rod WITHOUT lengthening the tube.

If you want to lengthen, you have to use a tool that has a shorter length of the tube covered by the tool, as you have found with your large plier tool (which was not designed for swedging but would be fine for some situations)

Unfortunately, when a shorter length is covered by the tool, there is much greater opportunity to make a localised cosmetic mess, with the swedged length conspicuously smaller in diameter than the tube either side .

I think that the new Ferrees multi-hole plier tool is probably a lot better in this respect than what you are using. It contacts more tube, but my guess is that it still does plenty lengthening because of the double lever system it has for closing with great force. Use a lubricant, or you may twist the key.

Post Edited (2008-05-07 06:35)

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