The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 18/05/16 15:59, Phil L wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tim Lamb wrote:
OK so it is overdue for an MOT. Probably done 1000 miles in the
year, barn stored.

Couple of advisories on last years.... brake pipes slightly
corroded near flex hose joint and inner side walls slightly
deteriorated on rear tyres.

Not much I can do about the tyres but wire brush off any brake pipe
rust and coat with..?

Brake pipes which rust are made from heavily plated steel. By the
time it starts on the outside, who knows what the inside is like?
They're not expensive to replace - just sometimes time consuming.
You can get them made from material which doesn't rust.

For the sake of an extra £10 on the cost of a new car, I can't see
why they can't make them from copper in the first place, using steel
is outdated. Copper is the norm for replacement brake pipes.


No, it isn't.

Ebay results:

'Brake pipe copper' = 4,819

'Brake pipe Kunifer' = 621

So there's about 8 times as many copper pipes as kunifer.


And if you had worked trying to get a seal on 10mm copper oil pipe on
a central heating boiler, you would know why.

I've never needed to, but I've replaced lots of brake pipes on cars, all of
them copper and none of them were any trouble at all.