Brake pipes

Dave Plowman (News) ("Dave Plowman (News)" ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Unlikely, since I've never heard of a single one of those pipes fracturing, even with shagged engine mounts. Allowance for the movement's designed in.

Indeed. I'm just surprised there wasn't a note to that effect in the catalogue. They seem to major on supplying things for competition use rather than road replacements.

Some of their stuff's very good, some of it's tat.

That certainly is cheap, even with the VAT. I paid £14+vat from VWP just last week.

So what? We're talking about brakepipe with flares on it. Whether the stuff is supplied half-hard (i.e. work-hardened from drawing) or soft (i.e. annealed again afterwards) this is dwarfed by the strain applied when flaring it. Even on 2CVs or coiled runs to a carburettor, you're unlikely to see cracking in the coil itself - it's the flares that go first.

As you're the guy who was recently talking about "heat hardening" copper, then your credibility here isn't high.

No, just old. KuNiFer's start-up product was a three-layer pipe. A complicated solution to a problem (from back in the day when coper prices were sky-high) with better and cheaper solutions available by alloying.

Yes, this is the right stuff. My rolls of it are from Automec, KuNiFer sell it too.