These things are called flare savers. They are shaped like the flare 37 deg. and are made of soft metal or plastic. We used them in alott of rocket engine equipment. they saved having to remake a tubing runs. They are available at any tubing-fitting supply house.
KRron ----- Original Message ----- From: "larry flesner" <fles...@midwest.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:18 AM Subject: KR>Alum Fuel Lines and Flared ends > > > For those of you that have fuel lines that have a leak you can't > seem to get rid of (at a flare fitting) , Wick's sells a little insert > that you install to help eliminate such problems. > > I had one fitting that I absolutely could not get to stop "weeping" > fuel. I had it off and looked at it several times before seeing a > hair-like scratch across the tubing flare. I filed the first half of the > flare off with a file, re-flared the tube, and the leak was gone. I think > the little insert would have fixed the problem also. > > Larry Flesner > > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > >
