Struggling !!

[Peter-C]

I cant get my head around brake pipes. I thought that if the fitting on the pipe is say male then it has one type of end and if female the other type. But looking at the fitting to a flexible pipe this doesn't appear to be the case. Can anyone clear this up please ? Hopefully there will be attachments.

[Bonzo]

Looking at the flexi pipe pictured, you'll need a male end on the copper pipe ;)

As a general rule of thumb if one fitting is concave ( Female ), The other fitting will need to be convex ( Male ) in order to marry the two fittings together :)

[AshG]

nope that flexi is male its just chamfered your female flare on the second pic is poor thats the problem. you need to turn the tool into it a lot more.

[Bonzo]

Hi Peter

May I ask if that is a new flexi pipe & do you have a better picture ?

Your image is quite difficult to view in any great detail.

Here's a typical female pipe flare

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj266/Bonzoronnie/femaleflare.jpg

I find it best to avoid over cooking the forming of the female flare, tends to make them a little weak & troublesome to seal.

I know these are not flexi pipe ends but they do represent the kind of ends usualy found on flexi pipes

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj266/Bonzoronnie/Pipeflares.jpg

Female left & male right

It has been my personal experience that the male end is by far the most common end to find at the rigid pipe end.

[Peter-C]

Hi Ronnie,

I've taken another photo but I can't copy and paste it so it has to be an attachment again. Both ends of the flexi pipe are the same.

Cheers

Peter

[Bonzo]

Hi Peter

That certainly looks as if that was made to take a female flare as Ash has said :)

Don't think I have seen one quite so chamfered as that before.

Perhaps Flyerncle will give us his thoughts :)

As for me .... Gotta get to specsavers :D :D

[Peter-C]

To be fair Ronnie, when I looked at my first set of attachments, I couldn't work out what they were either !!! Still don't know how to copy and paste pictures.

[Bonzo]

I upload my pictures to photobucket & copy then paste the IMG code into the forum post ;)

Probably can be done for images stored on your PC but I do not have a clue how to :o :o

[Peter-C]

Hi Adrian,

Its coming along, but a bit slower than I would like. With holidays,etc. it's taken almost a month to complete the brake and fuel lines. Hopefully in the next fortnight, still off school, I can make inroads.

Cheers


Peter

[flyerncle]

Ronnie,it would appear to be a male fitting as previously said. I think as the picture is very close and detailed it looks a little odd but copper brake pipe would mould to fit as it's soft.