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How do I fix a round pipe that's been crushed during shipping so it fits together

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Use your hand seamers or a dedicated sheet metal pipe reamer crimper tool to carefully work your way around the deformed diameter edge, pulling the metal back out incrementally into a true circular radius. * If it resists, use a crimping tool to add slight crimps to the male edge to make it slide easily into the female pipe receptor.

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Use your hand seamers or a dedicated sheet metal pipe reamer crimper tool to carefully work your way around the deformed diameter edge, pulling the metal back out incrementally into a true circular radius. * If it resists, use a crimping tool to add slight crimps to the male edge to make it slide easily into the female pipe receptor.

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Hey boss, quick learning check: How do I fix a round pipe that's been crushed during shipping so it fits together? Is this the method you want used on this job, or is there a project-specific standard here?

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