[TowerTalk] Swaging tool suggestions

[Tom Hellem]

Kirby-
One way to avoid swaging is to use  intermediate  short piece or pieces of
standard tubing sizes
as sleeves to neck down from your larger size to the smaller. This works
if the original
tubing and the sleeves are .058 wall thickness. I have done it many times
with no issues.

Tom
K0SN

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 9:47 PM KIRBY NESBITT <k.nesbitt at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I'm getting ready to refurbish an HF beam (Force 12) once/if the snow ever
> melts, and am going to have to replace a section of one element. Has anyone
> found a relatively inexpensive swaging tool for aluminum tubing?All that's
> showing up on my search is some fairly heavy duty industrial style
> equipment. Only looking to do two joints on the one element so don't want
> to invest allot of money into a fancy piece of equipment.Regards,Kirb -
> VE6IV
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