All,
I repaired my brake line yesterday and I have to admit that the failure
was partially my fault. When I took it apart I noticed that I had
tightened the plastic furrel down so tight that it was squeezed up
through the top around the tubing. Clamping it together that hard
compressed the tubing inside the furrel to the point of thinning it. The
failure of the nylaflo tubing was most likely due to softening from over
use of the left brake and also some bending due to the small amount of
movement in the Cleveland brake assembly.
For now I just repaired the nylaflo tube but a section of braided
or aluminum tube is in my near future.
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 20:08:35 -0500 "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net>
writes:
> > I would not advise using copper for brake lines.
>
> If you do the math on it, the softest copper should still be
> stronger than
> Nylaflow. If you rule out copper, I'd say you also have to rule
> out
> Nylaflow.
>
> Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
> see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
> email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
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