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Lars A. Morgan
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2025
This is a tool that I had I known about it earlier would have saved me a *ton* of money over the years spent on fittings, mostly elbow and pipe to pipe.I've lived in the desert southwest for pretty much all my life, and copper pipes are the default in all but the latest house I've lived in. The water out here is very hard, and the local water authority tried about 20 years ago to alter the water chemist to cut down on mineral deposits.They succeeded but in the process it ate a lot of old pipes. Kinda like running syntro oil in an old car, it will start to leak like a sieve as all the old oil is cleaned up exposing holes in the gaskets. I had the similar happen to my main water line that started soaking my yard and when it was dug up was full of holes.Thus, my bona fides established that I do have some knowledge of plumbing, let me say that this is a great tool, but probably a plumber or AC tech would get the most use out of. I got it as I like gadgets and wanted to see if it was better than my old flaring kit, etc.Yup. This flared out copper 3/4" line so quickly I almost didn't see it happen. Its supposed to also work on AL for AC work, but don't have any ready at hand to test. I can't see it being all that different, AL is softer most of the time than plumbing copper I believe.If you have the need, this is a handy kit. Comes with 2 identical step bit, two bit hangers for them - they are cut for an impact drill, which I decidedly did *not* use, just my old reliable Ryboi, and a belt hook. Guess the second one is to give to someone once they see how awesome it is.Can recommend for the right DIY'er or Pro.T
Brad McAllister
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2025
The copper expanding swaging tool comes with a nice attachment to place them on your tool belt, and are very easy to attach and de-attach with one hand. They are heavy duty but takes some practice to get use to it and to do a perfect job. After about 3 or 4 times trying, you will master it. Please note that these are not round, and are more flat. I tried to get a picture of these with a ruler to give you an idea of depth. You must make sure you are at a pretty close to a straight angle from the pipe, which means you must have some space, and hang on to it well when using. The larger the pipe, the easier to use. Since it is spinning, it is sometimes difficult to see what distance you need to stop at, but if you use some painter tape and mark it, then it's great. Most of the time you are using the same size pipe, so once you put the colored tape on, it isn’t hard at all. It sure beats having to carry around connectors, and only having to do one sweat instead of two each time, it sure does speed things up. Not to mention that since you are doing half the sweats, it elevates multiple other places to leak later on.
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