I would not advise using copper for brake lines. Typically you will see aluminum or stainless steel, or a braided line. Mine ar Aluminum. Once every year or so I usually post the sad tail of one of our local pilots that burned up his Defiant following the rupture due to heat of nylaflow tubing for the brakes. The hydralic hit the hot brakes and caught fire. Destroyed his plane. Plastic tubing should never be used where it may be exposed to heat.
Jeff Scott N1213W On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:23:47 -0500 "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> writes: > Joe Horton wrote: > > >I have enough > > tubing there to make the repair but I will be installing a short > braided > > tube to make the connection from the nyflo tube to the caliper. > > Another option would be copper in the same size for a few inches, > with a > union joining up to the original Nylaflow. The copper would > dissipate heat > pretty quickly, so by the time it got to the union, it wouldn't be a > hazard. > This kind of stuff won't happen in the future, because you won't be > doing > much braking after you're flying. > > Good luck, and stay out of the ditches. In a few weeks you'll be > wondering > what all the fuss is about... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > >
