A: Oil Pipework Ferrule crimper

[Bazlerker]

I have never had a ferrule crimper, never needed one..but now one has been made available at a price this pensioner can afford if I put the cats on half rations for a fortnight..The seller advises me that it will work for ½” – 5/8” ferrules...​

Is it suitable?

 

[Robert Watson]

Pictures?

I can show you pictures of mine!

 

[Bazlerker]

Pictures?

I can show you pictures of mine!

Link sent to your email..

 

[Michael Vane-Hunt]

Is this a secret plot to put a crimp on things?

 

[Robert Watson]

Vary much so, stay out of our private conferences you - you - you - Saltspring Island dweller!

 

[Michael Vane-Hunt]

Oh dear you are crimping me. I want to see the pictures of crimper to see if it looks like mine.

 

[Martyn Goodwin]

Looking for pictures of a crimping tool I found this at a HD tool shop.

 

[Michael Vane-Hunt]

Great. I have probably 100 such devices all shapes and sizes.

 

[andrew peters]

For the less technical members...I found this explanation on Wikioilleaks...
A feral crimper is an un-owned domestic crimper that lives outdoors and avoids human contact: it does not allow itself to be handled or touched, and usually remains hidden from humans. Feral crimpers may breed over dozens of generations and become an aggressive apex predator in urban, savannah and bushland environments. Wikipedia

 

[Robert Watson]

OK OK I'll put a stop to this.. My Crimper is not feral. It was born some 60 or 70 years ago and lead a long and productive life until some young hi tech upstart came a long and made it redundant. It then was just discarded and started drinking and wetting itself in the back corner of a dusty old warehouse. I spied it whimpering there and took pity upon it and brought it home to Watson's Home for Aged Tools. Every now and then I find a small job for it to do and it musters up what energy it has to once again partake in a useful duty. The rest of the time it hangs out with its slightly older friends. It is particularly fond of it's old buddy Mac. Mac is a circa 1939 McDougal lathe with whom it sits with most every day of its semi retired life. Now and then they chat with Uni, a circa 1955 Universal No 3 Milling machine. They all seem quite happy together as all winter I leave a little heat on and sometimes forget to turn the lights out at bedtime or leave some early Classic Rock and Roll playing on the Victrola.

 

[Peter Holmes]

Robert, that looks far to sophisticated, this is more becoming of a Vincent workshop tool:-

 

[vibrac]

These never leak and the tooling is in keeping

 

[highbury731]

Looking for pictures of a crimping tool I found this at a HD tool shop.

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Are you quite sure that tool has not been somehow mis-labeled? I feel certain that item is a specialist tool for wheel truing

 

[Michael Vane-Hunt]

This is how I spend time in my shop. Under the green segment I spend 90% of that time whacking things with ferrule crimpers similar to the one pictured by Martyn.

 

[bmetcalf]

Are you quite sure that tool has not been somehow mis-labeled? I feel certain that item is a specialist tool for wheel truing

Or HD points adjusting?

 

[Michael Vane-Hunt]

Then on the other hand I use my hammers as in picture to adjust my carbs, tighten various nuts and bolts and fend of unwanted visitors.

 

[BigEd]

These never leak and the tooling is in keeping
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The clips are cheap and you can use a pair of pincers to squeeze the ears. Works for me.

 

[Nigel Spaxman]

I have a piece of bar I drilled a few holes in it then cut it in half. I use it in the vice.

 

[Michael Vane-Hunt]

Nigel. I really fo not see how you can hit anything if your device is clamped in your vice. Unless you vice is not bolted down to a bench.

 

[Nulli Secundus]

I have a piece of bar I drilled a few holes in it then cut it in half. I use it in the vice.

I did the same, but also drilled the bar for two bolts and nuts to do the clamping. The cut edge of each semi-circular hole had a chamfer filed on it.