Patent ID: 7857064

Claim:
A method for over-expanding a recess shoe comprising: running a recess shoe in the hole with an insert sleeve therein, the sleeve comprising a ring and a plurality of fingers extending from the ring, the fingers being radially outwardly deflectable in response to a radially outwardly directed force generated by a swage in a swaging position acting on an inside dimension of the insert sleeve, the insert sleeve being radially inwardly retractable from the recess shoe with which it was run when the radially outwardly directed force is removed such that the fingers define a tubular structure having an outside dimension smaller than an outside dimension of the swage in the swaging position; and swaging a portion of the recess shoe radially outwardly with the swage and swaging another portion of the recess shoe radially outwardly with both the insert sleeve and the same swage in the same position to over-expand that portion of the recess shoe.