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Offline 73cudakid

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Stainless lines
« on: April 03, 2008 - 04:37:28 PM »
Planning on bending my own stainless lines for brakes and fuel. Any different than bending/flaring mild steel? I know its alot more brittle than the mild steel.
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Re: Stainless lines
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2008 - 04:45:31 PM »
It is a lot tougher to flare (double flare) and you should use a flaring tool designed to work with stainless.  Of, course those flaring tools are more expensive.  :faint:

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Re: Stainless lines
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2008 - 02:04:33 AM »
I would either use mild steel or buy prebent stainless lines , I have broken flraing tools trying to bend it myself , prebent will be cheaper in the long run

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