Terry,
If you keep asking questions, how do you expect the 'ead to be finished by
next Wednesday?
While I agree with Lew about how to straighten a shortish length of tubing,
I recommend that you straighten the whole coil all at once. All you need is
a car that runs, in your case that may be difficult, a driveway a little
longer than your piece of tubing, a piece of clothes line and a Boy Scouts
knowledge of knots.
Unroll your tubing, attach one end to a suitable post or tree and attach the
other to the front of the runable car you've borrowed from a friend. With
the friend watching carefully back the car until you've stretched the tubing
4% longer than it was originally. If you do it properly, you will end up
with a beautiful piece of absolutely straight tubing that is slightly harder
than when you started.
Cheers, "Bob".
P.S. The tubing should be 5/32", not 1/8".
> From: TATERRY@aol.com
> Reply-To: TATERRY@aol.com
> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:46:22 EST
> To: british-cars-pre-war@autox.team.net, mg-mmm@autox.team.net
> Subject: To quench or not to quench
>
> That is the question........I'm in the process of annealing the oil pipes on
> my NA engine. I've heard it both ways.......whats the lists advice?
>
> Kudos to Lew Palmer who suggested "Barkeeper's Friend" for cleaning up copper
> and brass......this stuff works better than anything else I've tried. The
> active ingredient seems to be oxalic acid.
>
> and lastly, has anyone a trick to unrolling a the coils of brass 1/8" pipe
> that Mike Dowleys sends you? Getting it straight again is a pain.
>
> Cheers
> Terry in Oakland, CA MG NA Fourseater
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