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I'm not sure what I'm missing here. I have one of those flaring kits that has 2 'halves' that you tighten wingnuts on over the tubing, then flare it how you like, but I'm having the hardest time flaring steel tubing. Every time I try, the tubing just gets pushed out of the tool when I start to...

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