Metal brake line flare fittings

[Russ Maki]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kneale Brownson" <knotnook at traverse.com>
To: "Russ Maki" <rinard at execpc.com>; <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: Metal brake line flare fittings


> At 01:31 AM 07/12/2002 -0500, Russ Maki wrote:
>
> >Hi Craig --
> >
> >
> >I've touted this tool before here and elsewhere, but you REALLY need it
if
> >you're gonna try to save fluid fittings that have seen a decade of
northern
> >winters. It's a Vise-Grip product they call their Locking Wrench.
Visualize
> >a standard Vise Grip, and then imagine someone has milled a V-shaped
notch
> >into the fixed jaw. The tool grips the flare fitting on three sides and
then
> >clamps down on it when you lock it in. NO SLIPPAGE. The tool you want is
the
> >smallest version of the Locking Wrench -- it's maybe 5 inches long and it
> >has two big brothers. I bought mine at the local Ace Hardware. And it may
> >yet save that rounded-off flare nut.
>
> You mean the product shown at:
http://www.mytoolstore.com/american/vis003.html


Yep, that's it.

Russ