A good set of wire strippers always worked for me. Apply light pressure and a twisting action for abut 8 turns and bend the cap tube a little bit. Snaps pefect every time, no crushing and no burrs because you didnt cut the inner wall it was weakened until it broke clean.
A very sharp FINE file works wonderfully. However... according to what I was taught in school ...and we worked with a ton of cap tubes there ... a pocket knife works great.
Then I finish off with a micro reamer made by Dremel. I have two shapes brazed onto a a handle made especially for reaming the insides of very small tubing.
First reamer is very steep angle. Say fifteen degrees. Quite sharp angle indeed. It will get into very tight areas to clean them out.
Next reamer is around forty five degrees. Either of them will service tubing sizes up to and including quarter inch copper.
Then all the way down to cap tube sizes.
Hey Absordtek, where'd you buy your swedges from? Mine were custom made in Switzerland during the last world war.
Thier kind of antique .. so I dont use them much anymore ...
GO ahead make fun of me,i try too work as smart as possible not hard,CAPTUBE SWEDGES,come on yinz guys can do better than that.your jealous cause i bouhgt a new tool this week and you guys didnt,
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now u tell me you owe me 20.00 bucks
