Brake pipe & flares

[Mighty306]

if you have access to a vice then this is the tool to have

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brake-Pipe-Fla...2523915214

by hand this one is excellent, comes with the pipe shaping tool and a cutter.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sykes-Pickavan...2527759018

this is the older style of the first one I linked to, well worth looking out for used ones, they don't really go wrong!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sykes-Pickavan...2343836135

Cheers Welshpug.  They look like they'd do a proper job.  Have seen them but been put off by the cost.  Having said that, if I find myself doing many of my own pipes I'm sure it's the way to go & would pay for itself.  I imagine the one I've already got will be a bit fiddly and probably not really a precision tool.

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yup, I've found that the best unions to use are the oem ones, so if yours arent mangled I'd re-use them.

I keep a tub of ones I've removed from scrap cars for cases where the union isn't salveagable

Thanks, that's definitely good to know as I would probably have ditched the old ones and gone for motor factor unions otherwise.