Beading/bead rolling tool/s for steel lines.

[vlad01]

Actually, I just realized that maybe my old restro work place, same guys that do small fab jobs for me in Bendigo, those that painted the red VP. They might have beading equipment since they do restros and build/maintain TCM race cars.

I am sure they would be running hard lines often enough. Worst case, I could just do a brake flare and find a suitable barb fitting. Should be more compact and simple than AN for example which needs a number of pieces to get the same result.

[Charlescrown]

The thing I hate about AN fittings is the $$$.

[vlad01]

Yep and the unnecessary amount of adapters because they never seem to have the combo you want in one fitting. Guess that good for their bottom line.

[immortality]

I went down the AN fitting rabbit hole on one car, now I try to stay with factory style fittings where possible.

[vlad01]

Yeah I feel the same way with the way I build and mod stuff now, OEM where possible unless there is an obvious design oversight or flaw and aftermarket fixes or make it better. But OEM is often the simplest and most reliable way when it comes to most things.

It's so easy to get carried away and go down that shiny stuff rabbit hole!

Even the car manufactures can get caught doing the same sometimes. Take those supposed quick release fuel line fittings VS and new use. There is no benefit other than being able to slap the car together faster on the line, everything else it adds time and effort to work on, failure point, incompatible with normal hoses and fittings, no spare parts! Only expensive billet alloy options as a replacement which you guessed it, used AN on the end, so adapt to barb once again, adds even more complexity and points of failure.

[Wade]

Not sure if this helps at all