- 1. Questions (score: 1)
- Author: djacob@kaiwan.com (Don Jacob)
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 20:19:23 -0800
- Any SOL'ers going to attend Triumph Marque Day at Moss Sat 9/17? I plan to be there, even if Moss sent my carpet set. I'll have a sign on my TR4A (newly painted with no carpet!). Along the same lines
- /html/british-cars/1994-09/msg00253.html (6,537 bytes)
- 2. Questions (score: 1)
- Author: bishel@lobby.ti.com
- Date: Thu Jan 20 14:53:14 1994
- Hi Folks, I'm finally making some good headway in my attempts to distill one good MG Midget from two - my complete and assembled but very rusty '74, and my nearly complete and not rusty but disassemb
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00403.html (8,766 bytes)
- 3. Re: Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 16:57:23 -0500 (EST)
- On my 60 Sprite, I recall that the fittings take a larger hex wrench than the ones in the local auto parts store. I cut them off of old brake lines and reused them for authenticity. Should have had t
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00407.html (8,869 bytes)
- 4. Re: Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "TeriAnn Wakeman" <twakeman@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 14:12:29 -0800
- Questions I can't answer deleted. Geoff, During the 50s-60s & maybe early 70s the British used fittings that had the same size and diameter as the U.S. fittings. Most I believe are 3/8ths. The used a
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00411.html (10,105 bytes)
- 5. Re: Questions (score: 1)
- Author: bownes@aule-tek.com (Robert M. Bownes III)
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 19:21:32 +0500
- What is different is that the Brits tend to use "Bubble" or more properly "Double" flares on the ends of the lines. Prefab brake line that you find on the shelf in the US is usually "Single flare".
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00417.html (9,314 bytes)
- 6. Re: Questions (score: 1)
- Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 23:15:49 -0500
- I feel Bad about Copper. But I'm a tough driver. On a once-in-a-while car, maybe. On a daily driver that is subject to alot of vibration and stress, no way. On a race car subject to high temperature,
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00418.html (8,075 bytes)
- 7. Re- Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Lapham" <Dave_Lapham@oakqm3.sps.mot.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 1994 09:14:47 U
- Re: Questions Geoff Bishel writes -- Okay, this may not qualify as a hint from Heloise, but I've had reasonable success with laundry detergent in a bucket. I use a five-gallon bucket (I get them by b
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00425.html (8,073 bytes)
- 8. Questions (score: 1)
- Author: wbrown@csg.lbl.gov (Bill Brown)
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 07:48:15 PST
- bishel@lobby.ti.com sez: L.P.S. makes a "machinery cleaner" kind of stuff that comes in a squirtbottle. Seems quite tame, claims to have no dangerous chemicals, has very little odor, and seems to wor
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00428.html (8,119 bytes)
- 9. Re: Questions (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Dudley <cobra@cdc.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 8:26:33 PST
- Bob, Double flares and bubble flares (as shown in your diagram) are two different things. A double flare is similar to a single flare but with the lip doubled back. More like this: _ // ____________
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00430.html (7,687 bytes)
- 10. Re: Questions (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Dudley <cobra@cdc.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 8:27:59 PST
- Stainless steel lines are also available, but they're expensive.
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00431.html (7,329 bytes)
- 11. Re- Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "POCHE@music.loyno.edu" <POCHE@MUSIC.LOYNO.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 16:12:31 CST
- SendMail TO(BritCars) Subj(Re- Questions) File(JAN22941.oma) BlackTiger Mailer - Msg Created 01-22-1994 .. 21:41:46 When the wife is not around I have had great sucess with using the Dish washer! I c
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00462.html (8,875 bytes)
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