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Staple balls - 28/11/03 at 01:28 PM

is the mk brake set thingy any good? and would i still be needing a pipe flarerer and whatever if i got it?

cheers
alex

Hellfire - 28/11/03 at 06:28 PM

We bought the said Kit and yes it is good - depends also where and what you're going to mount your flexi's to.

Have a gander in our website and see what we had to do with it... oh and yes we had a flanger.

Staple balls - 28/11/03 at 06:35 PM

thanks, i'd already had a looksee at your site

locoboy - 28/11/03 at 09:05 PM

cant beat a good bit of flanging late in the wee hours of the morning eh Hellfire

Hellfire - 29/11/03 at 01:24 AM

can't beat a good bit of flanging Col... one word of warning - when you hand make the tool it's best if you anneal the copper pipe first as the bell end gets a bit stiff after a while. Best to use a bit of vaseline to get it well lubed up - then it easier to pull the flange from the bell end after you've done the dirty... if you get my drift?

Course if it's a male flange you obviously have to do it a second time to get the bullnose to form the flange back in again... HEHE!!!

locoboy - 1/12/03 at 04:54 PM

too true

Mk-Ninja - 1/12/03 at 06:34 PM

Ive just fitted the brake pipes to my indy, without having change or flange anything.
I dont know if I should be pleased or not, sounds like Im missing out.

Gordon

MK7 - 2/12/03 at 09:10 PM

I bought the MK kit and found it most challenging to work out a route that would allow the pipes to end in the right places for the flexies to fit. I must have had them in and out 3 or 4 times and on each ocassion there is a risk of damaging the pipe.

Eventually I got them in but I'm convinced they're not in the place they are supposed to be.

I made the decision that if I was going to do this again I'd buy all the bits and a decent flanging tool and do it all myself. I really don't see the benefit in buying the pipes ready assembled.

Russell

Staple balls - 2/12/03 at 09:23 PM

yeah, i'd seen a few things like that about the Mk kit, and seeing as a local car shop were doing 25' of brake pipe for £8, i decided it'd work out better to sort it myself

Hellfire - 3/12/03 at 12:30 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MK7

I made the decision that if I was going to do this again I'd buy all the bits and a decent flanging tool and do it all myself. I really don't see the benefit in buying the pipes ready assembled.

Russell


Having bought the kit, fitted it, took some of it out and bought some more pipe to route it the way we wanted, I would tend to agree with you Russ.

Thing is though..... when you're a bit green to brake pipe fitting, it seems like a potential minefield. Like all things, once you understand how it all fits together and have a practice it really is quite simple.

Peteff - 3/12/03 at 03:42 PM

I'm swapping my flaring tool, flanging sounds so much better. Actually I was looking for a flanger earlier but it's a guitar effect, nothing to do with brakes.

yours, Pete.

MK7 - 3/12/03 at 11:49 PM

But the sentiment remains. I bought the MK kit cos I was green.

Several times during the assembly process I became red

Having been through the process only once, in my books it's once too often.

Having said that I've never used either a flanging kit or a flaring kit so I could be talking complete bovine feces...

...but somehow I doubt it, I mean, how difficult can it be to flare a copper pipe with the right tool?

Russell