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"carl mciver" wrote:

"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in message
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| Last nite the kid comes upstairs from the garage and asks me to show him
| how to make a double flare an some 3/16" steel brake tubing he's
| patching up his '95 Honda Civic with.

This may sound like a silly question, but why is he using inch sized
fittings on a metric car? Isn't everything metric, including the tubing and
fittings?

Not silly.

The metric equivalent works out to be 3/16"
(4.75mm IIRC)