On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:43:56 -0400, Michael Horowitz
wrote:


I did it; very crudely. welded a piece of bar stock to a piece of
tubing (along the tubing's axis,(looking vaguely like a hand axe, only
much smaller), inserted the bar stock into the slot, then pushed down
on the 'handle/tube" . that opened the slot enough to allow me to slip
1/8" over the tube I wanted to surround. hammered it the rest of the
way.

Now, there are aircraft repairs(I'm thinking of streamlined tube and
landing gear) which say take a like sized piece of tubing, split it
and slip it over the original tube.

Can I use the same brute-force method or is that too much scaring of
metal? - MIke