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The $45 anvil horn attachment that finally made sense to me
I used to think anvil horns were just for bending hooks until I watched a guy at a demo in Portland use one to flare a pipe end, and now I see why that money was worth it.
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faith_chen722d ago
The flare trick is where it finally clicked for me too, but the real money move is using the horn to shape the inside of a bend. You can work the metal from the outside and the horn pushes right back, so you get a clean radius without crushing the pipe. Once you start doing that, you stop reaching for a separate mandrel or a wood block. It turns the horn into a second hand that never gets tired. That demo guy probably saved you a couple hundred bucks down the road.
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