Avoid the plastic brake line. Last year at Sun-n-FUN, Bill Clapp melted a brake line at the caliper fitting due to heat build after several takeoffs and landing. Plus plastic lines tend to give a "soft" feel to braking due to their expansion under pressure.
Pete Klapp, KR-2S builder Canton, Ohio From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> Reply-To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Subject: Re: KR> Hydraulic brakes List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:37:37 -0600 > Reading this, one might suspect that you mean 1/4" isn't large enough, but > you mean they are too large. Wait a minute. I don't think that makes any sense! What you meant was that plastic was the problem, I suspect, not that it was too big. Mine are 3/16", and work fine except for full throttle, which is certainly good enough to stand it on it's nose at any given time. I'm not sure where I got the 3/16" sizing from, but it was somewhere from way back in past history. One thing I'll do differently on the next plane is install a plastic conduit that will allow easy brake line replacement, rather than clamping and floxing the tubing directly to the spar! 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 _________________________________________________________________ Laugh, share and connect with Windows Live Messenger http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=hmtagline
