Thanks for the great tips. My pipe went together on the second try. Without your help I never would have figured out how to do it!

Do this in the store before you pay for it, so if you destroy it, just grab some more and keep practicing.

Well I wish I would've stopped and watched your video sooner. Instead I opted to stubbornly fight it for 20 minutes (pride got the better of me...😂). Watched your video and 2 minutes later it snapped right together. Thanks for sharing....thumbs up and Subscribed.

Thanks Brad this was driving me crazy. Took 2 minutes after watching your video.

Thanks for this video! In addition to what you’ve mentioned, I found it helpful to put the pipe on a non-slip yoga mat. This makes it easier to “wrestle” with the pipe. The second thing I noticed in your video but wasn’t called out explicitly was that to prevent creases, apply gentle pressure using the entirety of your palm. Lastly, I found it helpful to gauge how round the finished product is by simply rolling it on the mat! And you can easily tell which areas need more work.

Glad I watched this video beforehand. Saved me a lot of time and energy in fighting with an unsnapped stove pipe.

Great video. I tried to assemble 1 24” pipe for 30 minutes before finding your video. After your tutelage, I assembled 7’ of pipe (3 pieces) in 5 minutes! Thanks.

Can't thank you enough! I found your video before I started my attempt. You saved me aggravation and probably another trip to the store. Two thumbs up! (KZfaq is amazing for helping DIYers. I'm a Subscriber...)

Thank you so very much. You saved us a bunch of frustration

I heard this was an EXTREMELY difficult task. You make it look easy! The people saying it is difficult must not have any kind of mechanical ability at all!

Thank you for this video. Your method worked the first time. I had been fighting with it for a while.

Thanks Brad, I didn’t realize I ordered split stove pipe and have had a heck of a morning trying to get it together. Thank you for sharing and saving me lots of time and frustration!

Definitely saved me alot of cussing and throwing things around! Thank you for the wisdom!

Thanks! Worked with minimal effort. My 3” diameter pipe made it easy. However, once I got it oval-formed, I had to snap it together (4 pcs on first try) vertically. I installed it on my shepherd hooks which hold my bird feeders, to prevent the tree rats from thieving the birds’ seed. Thanks again!

Thank you kind sir. 🙏 Your video made this almost impossible task doable.😄

Excellent video! Thank you Sir, a big life saver for me today. You saved me a lot of wrestling with sheet metal! Your showing your attempts made me feel better about my attempts to achieve success.

The first section made a second "snap" as well. I am a paraplegic and fixing to give it a try, lol. A sense of quality humor will allow us to live much better lives like you and I possess. Thanks for your instructional video friend.

Thanks for posting this, specifically about how it doesn't just magically work and may require some extra "care".

Thank you so much for posting this!! 😀

Great advice.. and Nice shop!

Hey man I appreciate you on this day. Perfectly explained

Your video saved us!! Thank you!

Awesome video, got it on the first try thanks to you with a 4ft piece. 🎉

Thank you for this vid! So helpful.

Yea my wife and I were pipe fighters when we put our heater in 😇🙏

Thank u so much sir you were extremely helpful

Nicely done! Thank you!!! You are one patient man!

after several years of not useing a wood stove, as i was TRYN to clikt my new pipes together !!!! i realized !!! i couldnt cause i didnt remeber how and i do know proper english i just choose to type the way i prefer to talk much love

Thanks! This is the best instructive one yet!

Thank you! Great explanation and straight to the point

Thanks Brad. Monster UPVOTE! Yuh know...I have carried out this operation a few times by myself. Last time mebbe 5 years ago. This time around it took me and the wife to get two sticks together. Not working out the way we were doing, I found your vid and with her holding a flashlight (black on black sucks when you get old) and me using your method...wah-la! Can't thank you enough! Now who do I send a letter to about this backwards flue pipe? You'd think after 120 years some company would have figgered out how to sell 'em put together. Ha! Norm

man this was awesome thank you!

I'm about to install two new sections...any problem with two pipe sections not sealing very good and letting smoke by due to one section maybe being "more oval" than the other?

Huzzah! I just heard the sound of victory! Thanks, Bro!

Thank you! Great video, definitely agree with the parts about you will not succed the first time and each pipe has it's own personality. I would also add if you have cataracts or any visual impairment try and do this outside or with really good lighting.

Best advice... Put it on the floor! I had 5 footers 30 gauge. I put it on the floor and had the seam on the side and used cable tie to start it. By the 6th on ... 30 seconds. Thanx

Thank you for this video it kept me from making a stove pipe instead of a pancakes with a mallet😂😂

This video was a huge help thank you

Thank you. Nice simple video, BIG help!

fantastic thanks

Another thing that makes it easier is to get the crimped end in and put a ratchet strap on it so it can't get loose then push down and snap. It is a little easier on my worn-out hip.

Thanks

Thank you Brad. Very helpful.

The real challenge is that THEY need to make a seamless pipe available in my area in the same lengths as these abominations........Life would be so grand then ;)

The new exercise model

this worked great. was easier than a different video i watched. thanks!!

After farting around with this for over an hour. I decided it was time to reinvent the wheel. I did most of what the fella said with one very big difference. Once I got the corner in I clamped it with my vise grips on the very edge. Then started the over side of the pipe going at the corner. I did the same thing with the vice grips as well. Now the little f$%ker can't pop off. I worked it from the end towards the middle. If it gave me some grief I would simply switch to the other side. Once that I saw the seam "most" of the way in I remove both vise grips and started to round out the pipe and it sounded like a popcorn maker. DONE! I spent over an hour on my first 48 inch long pipe. Once I figured this trick out I had all four done in less then five minutes. I have never put pipe together before. I also have "0" patience for this kind of crap. So if I can do it I know you will have no trouble at all...lol. I truly hopes this spares some one some grief. I also feel for the amount of money they charge, it should be done at the factory or at the store that makes a hefty profit off of a piece of stamped sheet metal.

It worked! Thank you much, good sir!

Other tools that will help: airplane worm clamp, strap of velcro, wire tie, a cutout circle of wood or plastic, piece of tire tube, large! rubber band... The reason for flat pieces is more can be shipped and stored in a given space and less damage to the finished product. flue pipe, smoke pipe, vent pipe, snap pipe, duct

I have heated with wood stoves for 43 years. There is still a cloud of curse words hanging over Santa Fe from my wrestling with these d%#@d things! Michael

All I can say is: do you make housecalls

Thank you!!!

Thank you ..you helped me

Everybody thinks that's really easy to put these pipes together and make them around again no matter how hard you try over it just seemed about 2 to 3 in on each side of the sink is flat it's very hard to get that area round again I'm working on some how to force that scene out so the pipes really around again anybody got any ideas let me know I also tried the 4" to 6" bladder that you could buy at harbor freight that doesn't

I have my pipes snapped together, and I prefer to wear gloves when working with sheetmetal. The part I want to see is sliding the pipes together especially where the seams are.

Thanks 😊

Those four foot pipes are about eight times harder to put together than the two footers!

Using a belt makes it easy

Very helpful!!! Thank you!!

So I guess you don't have to silicone the seams then?

Do you line up the seams, or stagger them off??

Wow ty

This should absolutely be done already. They charge way, way, way too much money at it is to just sell you a stamped piece of metal that you have to screw around with for hours. I am going to return mine have have them do it or refund me.

Why do they sell it apart for what they cost they should already have the seams put together and welded for you at the factory.It makes no sense to sell stove pipe that way. They don’t sell plumbing pipes that way . I believe in making things as simple and easy for people as possible when working on projects. Just saying.

When it's done properly it dosent need to be bent outta shape and the back into round.. ridiculous internet how not to do it instructional video

Lmfao... is it pretty round..?? Or pretty oval..! Hahah.. this pipe is not designed to bendboutta shape and then back to half ass round.. it will compromise the seam and will never be perfect round like whan it's done correctly.. the internet cN be great for figuring out little tricks of the trade ..but . Also great for learning how not to do it..! Perfect example of how not to assemble these pipes..

Yeaaa don't do this. Leaves it messed up and won't work in your wood stove

Thanks