Review on Wostore Double Flaring Tool Kit with Copper Line Tube Cutter: The Ultimate Solution for Precise Flaring! by Demetrius Holt

I should have looked for the old man's flaring tool hidden in the hording mess that is his garage. It made perfect double flares every single time. No matter how many times I tried to use this, the dies never created a circle even close to being a circle when it was pressed closed.! It does not center over the tubing and pushes the die to one side or the other, creating a bad double flare that is oval. By the time I got around to using it on copper tubing, I missed the return window by a week. It makes ok single flares. Bah.Update - Edit. So I had to spice in a short portion of new 3/8ths line to replace a bad one. The flare attempts ate up valuable inches. The double flaring die kept on crushing the copper tubing, or creating a lopsided oval. I had to resort to getting a new line. The Home Depot 3/8ths line must be of surprisingly better quality than the line set copper tubing. In the above pictures, the better tubing is on the left and the cheap tubing is on the right. One shot and done with the good tubing with double flares and not a single good double flare on the cheap tubing. The flare tool doesn't sit square and centered on the vise and the flaring die doesn't sit nicely on top of the tubing. The old mans flaring tool that is 40 years old can flare anything no matter how you place it in the flaring vise (not square, off center) every flare came out perfect because the flaring tool and die pressed it into shape no matter what it looked like - regardless of the tube quality. This tool is very finicky and you have to pay attention. the die sits wobbly on the tube and slides around as you try and seat it and you have to back it on and off in order to ensure it is centered. The fact that the press is not centered doesn't help either. The last picture is the single flare. I resorted to a single flare on the crappy copper and a Flare Tite gasket to ensure it wouldn't leak under high pressure.