Re: [MBZ] flare tool - Wilton's story

2008-11-12 Thread Bill R
and are surrounded by sheet metal or 'policy.'. BillR. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilton Strickland Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:30 PM To: mercedes Subject: [MBZ] flare tool 'Reminds me of a night in Greenland in 1978. I was Director

[MBZ] flare tool

2008-11-11 Thread Allan Streib
Can anyone recommend a good all-purpose tubing flare tool that will do 45 and 37 (AN) flares, as well as double and metric bubble flares I know it will probably be costly but I'd rather have one good tool that can do it all than a bunch of different cheap tools. Allan -- 1983 300D

Re: [MBZ] flare tool

2008-11-11 Thread Loren Faeth
I had a nice snap on that would do normal and double flares. They only have double flare dies for us sizes, not metric, but I was able to make double flares with practice. The last time i needed double flares, I used my cheap flare tool and just bought the 1/8 double flare die from snappy.

[MBZ] flare tool

2008-11-11 Thread Wilton Strickland
'Reminds me of a night in Greenland in 1978. I was Director of Engineering at Sondrestrom Air Base, now known as Kangerlussuaq. Early evening I was in my room reading and listening to classical music; phone rang; Base Commander asked me to go over to Officer's Club and talk to a NASA guy about

Re: [MBZ] flare tool

2008-11-11 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:30:08 -0500 Wilton Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Reminds me of a night in Greenland in 1978 'Just a small part of my very enjoyable foreign relations experience and an excellent example of Danish mechanics' innovation and desire to excell. 'Much like our

Re: [MBZ] flare tool

2008-11-11 Thread Loren Faeth
That is a great story Wilton, and an appropriate one for Veterans' Day! At 06:30 PM 11/11/2008, you wrote: 'Reminds me of a night in Greenland in 1978. I was Director of Engineering at Sondrestrom Air Base, now known as Kangerlussuaq. Early evening I was in my room reading and listening to

Re: [MBZ] flare tool

2008-11-11 Thread LarryT
- Sincerely, Larry T (74 911, 91 300D 2.5T) www.youroil.net Oil Analysis Kits Porsche Posters/Weber parts . - Original Message - From: Loren Faeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] flare tool

Re: [MBZ] flare tool

2008-11-11 Thread Mitch Haley
LarryT wrote: Hey Wilton! Great story! ;-) Typical of the quality of our servicepeople. Speaking of a bunch of experienced people working on something mechanical - Peter Egan (columinist extrodinaire in RT) was celebrating the Christmas holidays with some friends in from out of town.

Re: [MBZ] flare tool

2008-11-11 Thread Rich Thomas
But you didn't use any old microwave oven sheet metal and Shoe Goo. --R Wilton Strickland wrote: 'Reminds me of a night in Greenland in 1978. I was Director of Engineering at Sondrestrom Air Base, now known as Kangerlussuaq. Early evening I was in my room reading and listening to classical

Re: [MBZ] flare tool

2008-11-11 Thread Allan Streib
Loren Faeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have never seen a tool that makes 37 degree JIC flares. The only place I have seen the JIC flare used is hydraulics, and you don't want to be doing that yourself. Not hydraulics, fuel injection. Most of the fittings you find for this kind of