Help me with the name of a tool?

[Kerry_Dee]

Im looking for the name of a plumbing tool. Basically you put it in the end of a pipe and hammer it and it widens the pipe. Does anyone know the name of it? Thanks.

 

[SimonG]

seftonbarn

seriously though, do you mean a flaring tool?

 

[lame plumber]

socket expansion tool ?

Monument 138R Socket Forming Tool (15 & 22mm).. - Mts

 

[Ray Stafford]

I've heard it called a drift, or a socket former or a swaging tool.

 

[Kerry_Dee]

I just googled a flaring tool and its not that. Its a metal cylinder which fits in the pipe and you hammer the top.

 

[lame plumber]

post 3 thickie

 

[kirkgas]

A drift

 

[SimonG]

Socket former then.

 

[Ray Stafford]

post 3 thickie

Chill out lame!

 

[lame plumber]

A drift

hang on Kirk old son, we are sending a boat for you 🙂

 

[Kerry_Dee]

Thanks socket former is what I was looking for. Where the hell can you buy one?

 

[Ray Stafford]

Lame linked to a supplier above. Post 3

 

[SimonG]

What is a socket former?

 

[lame plumber]

again post 3 thickie, (to be taken with a large chill pill 🙂 )

 

[Kerry_Dee]

Cheers but i wanted to buy one in person. Nearish to west london

 

[lame plumber]

What is a socket former?

I don't believe a yorkshireman hasnt used one of these to save spending money on end feed unions 🙂

 

[lame plumber]

no one sells them as it is all too much hassle to use now, mine came from an end of line bin for peanuts, used the 22mm one once to date

 

[Kerry_Dee]

Are they not really used these days then? Forgive me I've only started using them at college

 

[lame plumber]

it would take too long now to do all your joints so why bother when you have ef fittings instead, and dont worry about me calling you thickie, thats a complement from me 🙂 I suspect your tutors are short of stock or finding you things to do.

 

[stevetheplumber]

not as popular as they were as fittings are cheaper than they've ever beenany good merchants will still have them or get you one handy for opening a bit of copper thats been frozen and wont go in to a fitting

 

[Ray Stafford]

You haven't a freeze in Devon then lame? A drift comes in very handy then.

 

[stevetheplumber]

snap ray

 

[plumben]

I've been meaning to buy a set only for if there very rare occasion comes that I've got no fittings or the pipes froze and I can't get a fitting on

 

[newcastle phill]

I carry a socket former just in case i run out and am miles away

 

[tolly]

I thought people stopped using these as it was not approved by WRAS, im probably wrong, but if it is WRAS you could still use it on CH.