bigminiandy · May 24, 2015

Hi guys

Does anybody know of a company that produces rear brake line kits for the L322. Mines rusted through somewhere half way alone the body. I can find a kit in America but nothing over here. Don't really wanna have to do the flares etc myself.

Anybody had this done at a garage? Did it cost a bomb?

Cheers andy

Datatek · May 24, 2015

Easy enough to make your own with cunic pipe and a flaring tool.

bigminiandy · May 24, 2015

Copper pipe?

It's just the ease if a kit that appeals, I've done a couple of old minis in the past so I have the tools. A kit would save some time.

I presume the lines are 3/16 or 7.6mm. Could somebody confirm this for me?

Datatek · May 25, 2015

bigminiandy said:
Copper pipe?

It's just the ease if a kit that appeals, I've done a couple of old minis in the past so I have the tools. A kit would save some time.

I presume the lines are 3/16 or 7.6mm. Could somebody confirm this for me?

Cunic is better, but copper is OK. No idea of the size, measure it.

wammers · May 25, 2015

bigminiandy said:
Copper pipe?

It's just the ease if a kit that appeals, I've done a couple of old minis in the past so I have the tools. A kit would save some time.

I presume the lines are 3/16 or 7.6mm. Could somebody confirm this for me?

Brake pipe is 3/16". Or 0.1875" in metric that would be 4.7625 mm. You cannot get metric brake pipe.

bigminiandy · May 25, 2015

dunno where I got 7.6 from???

3/16 is what I expected.

Sorry to sound ignorant, dumb or possibly both but what is cunic? Where can you get it from and what are the benefits over a copper brake line?

many thanks

tomcat59alan · May 25, 2015

bigminiandy said:
dunno where I got 7.6 from???

3/16 is what I expected.

Sorry to sound ignorant, dumb or possibly both but what is cunic? Where can you get it from and what are the benefits over a copper brake line?

many thanks

Copper/nickel alloy I believe, from any Motor factors

Datatek · May 25, 2015

bigminiandy said:
dunno where I got 7.6 from???

3/16 is what I expected.

Sorry to sound ignorant, dumb or possibly both but what is cunic? Where can you get it from and what are the benefits over a copper brake line?

many thanks

Stronger, less prone to corrosion & stress fractures.

wammers · May 25, 2015

bigminiandy said:
dunno where I got 7.6 from???

3/16 is what I expected.

Sorry to sound ignorant, dumb or possibly both but what is cunic? Where can you get it from and what are the benefits over a copper brake line?

many thanks

Cupro Nickel Kunifer 3/16? x 25ft Brake Pipe BS EN12449 | eBay

7.62 mm was the standard German rifle round slightly larger than the standard British and allied .303" so they could fire our rounds from their weapons but we couldn't use theirs. Allegedly.

ukadamwest · May 25, 2015

wammers said:
Cupro Nickel Kunifer 3/16? x 25ft Brake Pipe BS EN12449 | eBay

7.62 mm was the standard German rifle round slightly larger than the standard British and allied .303" so they could fire our rounds from their weapons but we couldn't use theirs. Allegedly.

Sounds like the EU !!!

tomcat59alan · May 25, 2015

wammers said:
Cupro Nickel Kunifer 3/16? x 25ft Brake Pipe BS EN12449 | eBay

7.62 mm was the standard German rifle round slightly larger than the standard British and allied .303" so they could fire our rounds from their weapons but we couldn't use theirs. Allegedly.

Didn't we go over to 7.62 mm so we could use any captured Rusky rounds but they couldn't use ours ?

wammers · May 25, 2015

tomcat59alan said:
Didn't we go over to 7.62 mm so we could use any captured Rusky rounds but they couldn't use ours ?

Don't know just something from the now failing memory banks. 7.62 mm is .308 i believe. So won't chamber in a .303. Maybe the new NATO round is like that but it's as useful as tits on a Mars bar for stopping anybody. The old FN would stop a bloody armoured car never mind a bloke. Rounds were heavy though in 200 packs.

West Slope Rover · May 25, 2015

The Sturmgewehr 44 was the first to use the intermediate sized cartridge. It was 7.92 mmx33 mm. The AK-47 fires a 7.62x39 cartridge. So does the SKS and the RPD light machine gun.

tomcat59alan · May 25, 2015

wammers said:
Don't know just something from the now failing memory banks. 7.62 mm is .308 i believe. So won't chamber in a .303. Maybe the new NATO round is like that but it's as useful as tits on a Mars bar for stopping anybody. The old FN would stop a bloody armoured car never mind a bloke. Rounds were heavy though in 200 packs.

Talking of Mars, I remember a pistol by that name. On test the report was "anyone that fired it once did not want to fire it again" It was a long recoil pistol of nearly 2 inches and used special bottle necked cartridges of "exceptional power"

bigminiandy · May 25, 2015

Nice one, thanks guy.

Clarified my brake lines and a gun lesson. Spot on

tomcat59alan · May 25, 2015

bigminiandy said:
Nice one, thanks guy.

Clarified my brake lines and a gun lesson. Spot on

You have to humour us old buggers, tin hats, sitting on our ammo box's swinging the lantern.

Dippypud · May 25, 2015

tomcat59alan said:
You have to humour us old buggers, tin hats, sitting on our ammo box's swinging the lantern.

get yer own 'ole ...

tomcat59alan · May 25, 2015

Dippypud said:
get yer own 'ole ...

I'd rather get shot in the arse than share an 'ole wiv a Cockynee..

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