A subject dear to my heart......

Trying to flare stainless brake tubing, I bought the tubing and the neat hydraulic flaring tool from Inline Tube. About 3/4 of the flares split on the second bend so I called them to bitch. The phone guy said that cutting the tubing with a tubing cutter would work harden the stainless and make it split.....soooo I started cutting the tubing with a wheel. It worked!!! Only about 1/2 of the flares split!! Unfortunately, if each tube has two ends and 50% split, the average was that every tube leaked. Occasionally I would luck out and get a tube with two good ends. Damn stainless. Finally, I gave up and bought Bundy tubing and 100% of the flares were good. Damn stainless.