Spent a little time in the shop this afternoon. A couple of hours. Spent most of it cleaning out my Craftsman roll around work station (the rear end housing is sitting on it in the above post). I was using it mostly for storage but the new cabinet is getting that duty so I am turning the "work" station back into a work station...
I cleaned up the outer fender that we rebuilt and threw on a coat of primer.
After the rebuild.
http://images16.fotki.com/v378/photo...MVC015F-vi.jpg
Now with a coat of primer. I will give this a skim coat of seam sealer after the primer is dry.
http://images59.fotki.com/v255/photo...MVC019F-vi.jpg
I also got out my CPP tube flaring set. I hadn't used this since I bought it to do the brake lines on the old truck so I thought I would give it a try. I bought a 25' coil of 3/15ths steel line from Speedway so I cut off a short section to experiment with.
http://images50.fotki.com/v395/photo...MVC002F-vi.jpg
After getting everything set up I ran the first step with the adapter die to get the "bell" shape. Seemed to do a good job with little effort, the shape was concentric.
http://images16.fotki.com/v377/photo...MVC001F-vi.jpg
After that I ran the center down to close up the flare. Here the center is just touching the flare.
http://images50.fotki.com/v1559/phot...MVC004F-vi.jpg
With the flare complete and the center ran all the way down.
http://images52.fotki.com/v1565/phot...MVC005F-vi.jpg
Here is the flare with a fitting installed.
http://images60.fotki.com/v367/photo...MVC006F-vi.jpg
I think this tool works very well. I did another flare on the other end of this tube and it looked just like the first one. For the price I think this flaring tool is the bomb...