Any progress is good progress! Plus, what's the hurry? From my perspective having options on where to apply time day to day is not a bad thing. I need to pick up a good flaring tool so I can re-do a brake line on the '32. I've never owned one before, but know that I want a decent one (good value).

On that rubber line, it looks to me like it's in an almost horizontal plane, and probably has almost a foot of flex vertically, if not more?