Colin_P

Hope someone can help.

I need to make up a couple of brake pipes (will be using copper nickel pipe) that have DIN or metric male unions.

Problem is i've only got an SAE flaring tool.

I've heard that an SAE double type flare half done will work in a DIN fitting? When I say half done I mean a single flare.

Oh, I dunno! which is why I'm asking.

One of the pipes is going to go on top of a fuel tank which means a huge amount of dismantling to access it so I'd really like to get it right.

The obvious anwser is to get a DIN flaring tool but cash is tight and I've only got a borrow on the SAE flaring tool.

Will a single SAE flare work in a DIN fitting using copper nickel pipe?

Many thanks.

studabear

It should be DIN but with copper nickel you should be fine imo.

Bloke I work with, 30 years in the trade makes brilliant shaped brake pipes, I was watching him making them and he used SAE for them all, I asked him and he said he always had done them all like that.

I still use DIN for DIN fittings, he still does them his way, neither of us has had any bother, we do use a decent flaring tool though, that could make a difference.

Colin_P

Thanks Stu,

I've ordered a DIN flare tool. The more I read into it the less convinced I was about doing a bodge.

On anything thing else a modified practice or a work round is fine in my books but I didn't want to take a risk on the brakes.

Just got to wait for the thing to get here now. The car is in bits all ready.