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Struggling !!
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.
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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
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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.
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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 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 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.
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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 |
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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
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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.
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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
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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 |
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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.
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