🔧 Blair 13229 Flange Tool: Streamline Flange Installation with Precision and Efficiency Review

Take an Irwin vise, grind the teeth and tig weld these steps, put a stopper on the set screw and you have a flanged tool. I give 4 stars because everything is welded crooked and the seam on one side looks weird. I don't think their A-Team built them. As a welder, if my parts were delivered askew with a bad weld, they would be rejected. But in general it doesn't matter. They are designed for sheet metal forming and do the job well.

The tool is provided by a third party and looks like they welded it together in reverse order. They shrink back when you try to use them. I emailed and asked if they could get me the right set. They said all I could do was digest them myself or return them for full credit. So I took them apart and welded them back together so they work properly now. They could contact a third party and get them involved, but they didn't seem to care.

This is a really unacceptable replacement for a real milling tool. This is a pair of vises with new jaws welded on. This works on flat stock, but you'll need to use the tool upside down to create a "countersunk" flange on a horizontal sheet metal, or a "countersunk" flange in a hole in a vertical piece of metal. I think they did it on purpose because of the angle of the jaws, but that makes the tool very awkward to use. After this tool failed miserably when creating a flange while doing some…