Tailpipe Stretcher
...a coupla weeks ago someone put J C Whitneys web page up here and I told
them I wanted a catalog.....thanks whoever did that....
I see some interesting tools in there, including something called a
tailpipe stretcher.
The tool is used to fix off round tailpipes back to round and also to
stretch tailpipes which will be slip fit over each other...i.e. it is sorta
like the inverted of a swaged (sp?) section on a piece of tubing like you
have on multiple piece booms.
This might work to take a 2" OD boom and open it up so that its 2" on the
ID and would be useful if you were making long booms.
It is billed as a low-cost alternative to hydraulic stretchers
and works for 1 5/8" up to 2 7/16"
Any thoughts on if this would work on aluminum booms??????
.it ain't free, it is 69.99.....but that is a lot cheaper than making
material swaged!
73,
Jim, K4OJ
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