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    Default 3/16 tool

    I just got my 3/16 tubing and I was thinking about how to use my one handed tool with it, just wonder what the best ways anybody's found?


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    take a piece of 5/16 tubing and split it length wise and remove about 1/8 of the material from that split, open it up and slide it over the 3/16 tubing and it will work just like 5/16

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    You can also just build up the tubing gripper with masking tape.

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    I just split the 5/16 and used it as a shim it worked perfectly.
    110 taps W.F Mason 2x3 and two turkey friers for finishing

    2011 expanding to a Mason 2x4 with a blower increasing taps to about 200
    2011 Hurricane Irene rips thru my small sugar bush cost me to lose 20% of taps
    2014 I have reworked my lines for 2014
    32 taps on 5/16 line with check valves
    57 taps on 3/16 line with check valves
    55 buckets with total tapped trees of 144

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    I split the 5/16 line, cut it the length of the thread and taped it to the bottom jaw, but when I try to push my tees in my line just collapses into the jaws? Should the 5/16 be the entire length of the jaw?


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    I had the 5/16 for entire length and do not have your 3/16 extending pass the front edge of jaw or line will collapse.
    110 taps W.F Mason 2x3 and two turkey friers for finishing

    2011 expanding to a Mason 2x4 with a blower increasing taps to about 200
    2011 Hurricane Irene rips thru my small sugar bush cost me to lose 20% of taps
    2014 I have reworked my lines for 2014
    32 taps on 5/16 line with check valves
    57 taps on 3/16 line with check valves
    55 buckets with total tapped trees of 144

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