alventures wrote:

Received my hand tube beader from Mittler Bros. today.  Put a couple of
beads on 1 1/4", 0.049 6061-T6 tube.  Made a nice bead (about .035 high)
in about a  minute.  Pretty slick; it's about the same amount of effort
as cutting the tube with a tube cutter.

I had first measured the beads on the pump connections and my custom
radiator and was surprised that they were typically only about .030 -
.035 high.

I'll be doing some 1 1/2", 0.065 in a couple of days; we'll see how that
goes.

One nice thing is that you can weld up the tube, fit as necessary, and
then do the bead.

Al

 
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