Right now ToolTopia has the SUR&R 50 ft x 3/16" brake line on sale for $54.94.
Which seems to be a pretty good price. Most places are charging the same for
25 feet. You can also buy it thru Amazon for the same price, but shipped from
ToolTopia, so it comes down to the best shipping cost.
This is the copper/nickle brake line that can be bent by hand....... So they say,
I don't have any first hand experience myself.
Now I jumped down off my stool to see what size brake line I have on the TBucket
and it's 1/4". So I began to wonder what are the pros and cons of 3/16" versus 1/4"
tubing. My first thought was that the bigger 1/4" would allow the brakes to react
faster, but is there more to this question ??? Bending the smaller 3/16" line might
be a plus for the smaller size, but I can't see it being a big difference. So maybe
manufactures that sell millions of cars and can save 25¢ per car would use
3/16" because of the cost savings.
Another thing .... they say the wall thickness in greater in the video, then that
must mean that the ID where the fluid flows is smaller, which has an effect on my
question above.
If you didn't know ...... pipe is measured by it's nominal size and tubing is measured
by it's OD
.
Which seems to be a pretty good price. Most places are charging the same for
25 feet. You can also buy it thru Amazon for the same price, but shipped from
ToolTopia, so it comes down to the best shipping cost.
This is the copper/nickle brake line that can be bent by hand....... So they say,
I don't have any first hand experience myself.
Now I jumped down off my stool to see what size brake line I have on the TBucket
and it's 1/4". So I began to wonder what are the pros and cons of 3/16" versus 1/4"
tubing. My first thought was that the bigger 1/4" would allow the brakes to react
faster, but is there more to this question ??? Bending the smaller 3/16" line might
be a plus for the smaller size, but I can't see it being a big difference. So maybe
manufactures that sell millions of cars and can save 25¢ per car would use
3/16" because of the cost savings.
Another thing .... they say the wall thickness in greater in the video, then that
must mean that the ID where the fluid flows is smaller, which has an effect on my
question above.
If you didn't know ...... pipe is measured by it's nominal size and tubing is measured
by it's OD
.
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