Yesterday I was tasked with putting some new 6 inch pipe together .

Normally a pretty straight forward job.
This time though, the pipe was 22 gauge galvanized pipe. Normally I have seen 24 & 26 ga.

I got each section snapped together and then tried to connect them end to end. Man that stuff is stiff !! Geriatric hands aren't up to that task.

The stuff was out of round from being banded so tightly in a bunch.

I finally decided to cut two circles of plywood as jigs. One was 6.0625" diameter and the other was 5.875 with a slight divot on the edge to allow for the seam inside.

I forced each one into the pipes at their respective ends.They force the pipe into round and allowed them to slip together...but not without a lot of vocabulary. I also drilled a hole in the center of each piece of plywood and ran some paracord through it. That way I can reach in and grab the cord and pull out.

Couldn't have done the job without these things

You didn't have a set of crimpers?

I have crimpers but I don't see how those would have helped ???

I’m sure Beav will be happy to explain how the crimpers would have helped....... LOL

Beav is napping !

Getting old sucks!

-TJ

I figured the crimper when used narrowed down the end so they could be slipped together. Isn't that what crimpers do? When you have to like pieces of pipe you have a male end and female end the crimped end Is the male end.

Yes but these sections of pipe were already crimped. The problem was they were very much out of round and too stiff to squeeze into shape by hand. Also I doubt my hand crimpers would have made a dent in this material even if it needed crimping

Well you forgot to mention they were already crimped. But then when you said they were new I should have realized my error. Next time I'll take more time to analyze the question. LOL

The whole no strength in the hands thing is a drag for sure, simple tasks that I used to do by hand now require pliers or scissors , and I’m not near as old as the beav lol, how are holding up beav with all this coronie business?

I'm about going stir crazy. I would normally be In Alaska keeping busy with all kinds of projects. But now I'm home stirring up trouble On T-man. LOL
This heat Is a killer It's In the 90s today and the humidity would choke a frog. To hot to work In the shed and It's to hot to even sit In the boat. Summer sucks.

Well, we are having record rain, here, which speaks volumes.

White 17
Could you attach a picture of the device you made?

I wonder if you could put a ratchet strap around it to make the pipe round.

Yes I can but they are pretty simple

I just cut two round disks out of plywood with the dimensions I listed in the OP.

I drilled a hole in the center of each and ran a piece of paracord through. Knot each end. That way you can reach in and grab the cord to pull them out once sections are together.

Maybe I should sell them

What you need Is something with a taper like over sized drift pin.

Yeah that would work as long as it would 'round out' two sections of pipe simultaneously.

I wonder if you could make a device like a piston ring compressor. You could install it just above the crimp on one pipe and closer to end on female pipe.

Probably, but I think that is getting unnecessarily complex

What else ya got to do? lol

Good point !

I sure know if you came up with a tool to make snapping the seam together easier I’d buy one. Probably get you a special place in heaven too.
Sometimes I snap one together in two seconds and think I must have it figured out. Next two take an hour and a half! Lmao

Same here.

I cheat on that operation. I use a screwdriver and slightly pry the seam a little bit more open. It doesn't take much. Maybe a millimeter. Snap the seam together . Lay the section on my welding table and use a small ball-peen hammer to tap the INSIDE of the seam tight. Never had a problem so far

I’m going to try that. I have a few to swap out this year.

When ever I buy the pipe I try to buy two from the outside of the bundle then two from the outside of the next bundle at the store, when they have multiple bundles. The ones that are squeezed inside seem harder to snap together.

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So you're the guy....

I'm impressed with the accuracy. 24'" or 16" chainsaw bar?