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Re: Brake lines Bubble/Double

To: larry.p@erols.com
Subject: Re: Brake lines Bubble/Double
From: Steve Laifman <Laifman@Flash.Net>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:39:58 -0700
Larry,

Can't understand your message.  Did you say you bought and English
System Bubble Flare tool, or an American system Double Flare tool.

They are NOT the same.  The correct English hydraulic tube has a cone of
tubing coming OUT of the coupling nut, the American style has this
doubled wall folded back into the outer V with nothing sticking out.

The receptacle of an English system has a recessed conical shape to
receive the protruding "V", the American system has a PROTRUDING "V" to
fit inside the recessed line "V"

That's the meaning behind the two ASCII pictures:
"=============<>   is the tubing on a Bubble flare, with a PROTRUDING
"V" end.

"=============<<   represents an American Double flare, where the metal
is bent back inside the outer "V".

Did you make an American Double flare, and fit it into a British "Bubble
flare" hydraulic unit?

Steve

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