Kingley drift/swedging tool.

[1JuanKerr]

Any real Plumbers know where we can buy 15/22mm Kingley drift/swedging tools??

Due to the increasing copper tube prices, can anyone please tell me if they have resorted to using Table Z tube? And what sort of money they are paying for it??

Thanks chaps.

 

[mysteryman]

Do you mean tube expanders, or socket-knockers as my lads on Merseyside used to call them?

 

[1JuanKerr]

No MM, it's a swedging tool for type B Kingley compression fittings. Handy for making a tap connector with a compression nut or if you can't find an olive for a type A compression fitting.

 

[wetshoes]

alexander brown do an expanding tool - is this what you're looking for?

www.theplumbersmerchants.com/securex-fittings.asp

 

[holmslaw]

You'll have more luck looking for a 'swaging' tool, rather than a 'swedging' tool.

 

[picasso]

Not often you see a user name being absolutely perfect for the poster

 

[picasso]

never heard of kingsley fittings juan let alone used one.

 

[kevplumb]

Not often you see a user name being absolutely perfect for the poster

Ah!! That hurt!!

What about you 'pizzedcaso' have you ever use Kingley fittings?

mabye not but i'm sure he can recognise your style puller

dismal attempt

 

[tamz]

Ye are showing your age here but they were a good tool. (i called it a swedger too.)

I have one, infact i might have 2, in an old tool box out in the garage. I think the ballbearing has fallen out the 3/4 bit but i'm keeping them as i might have to take it to the antiques roadshow along with my lead dummy, stavers, short rsed drifts and pipe clamps and a load of other forgotten stuff.

I might just dig them all out later and show the boy on Monday as a further part of his ongoing education program

 

[supergas]

does it work like a flaring tool similar to the one used on brake lines?

 

[kevplumb]

if it's the thing i remember

its a shouldered mandrel that fits into the pipe end

when you turn it with the handle a ball moves out and pushes a ridge into the pipe like a comp olive

when you reverse the turn the ball retracts so you can remove the tool

 

[1JuanKerr]

Ye are showing your age here but they were a good tool. (i called it a swedger too.)

I have one, infact i might have 2, in an old tool box out in the garage. I think the ballbearing has fallen out the 3/4 bit but i'm keeping them as i might have to take it to the antiques roadshow along with my lead dummy, stavers, short rsed drifts and pipe clamps and a load of other forgotten stuff.

I might just dig them all out later and show the boy on Monday as a further part of his ongoing education program

Oi, you been in my tool box again 'tamz'??!!

 

[tamz]

No it is like a stepped reducer with a thin bar through it. 1st part for 15mm then 22mm. There is a ball bearing inside and when you turn the bar clockwise it pushes the ball bearing out. Keep turning it and it will expand a grove around the pipe. Turn the bar back and the ball bearing retracts and remove the tool.
Simple yet very effective tool.

 

[mrgas]

Has deltat been banned then 'Juan'?

 

[1JuanKerr]

Has deltat been banned then 'Juan'?

Sorry matey, I don't know what you mean.