just get a 3/4 inch piece of metal and drill the appropriate holes in it and then just use a rubber hammer to fold them over. The top piece of metal used to put over the pipe sometimes mars up the finish on the grommet but not a problem with a rubber mallet.
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
mojo, that's sick. Got any extras lying around that you wanna part with?
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965