Inflation I guess Grigg, I don't remember paying that much for mine, but that was back before anyone heard of the FedHill tool.
I had about a month of back and forth discussions and sending tube samples to the engineers at Imperial-Eastman and sent a two of their top of the line flaring tools back to them for evaluation. In the end I settled on the FedHill tool, which was the only unit of its kind being made. Since them there have been a bunch of knockoffs all using the same principals, Eastwood sells one now that is a copy. I'm sure they could have made improvements to their original design. I haven’t seen the need to look at their products for some years now so they may have made some changes to them to keep up.
DG
