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

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.

['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...

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