If you have had any thought's about changing your brake pipes now is a good time as along with another poster on here I have found and ordered a brake pipe set made up using Kunifer tubing. It is made to order and you can order up to midday Saturday. After that day they will be made up and posted out. It's on E Bay, use this link to find it:-
I am not connected to the seller and am only passing this on as there has been a lot said about using Kunifer pipes as opposed to Copper pipes. The price is good, just a little more than making them up yourself but you get that back in the time saved.
Yes they do seem to be now BMC. Although I could not find a supplier when I was looking these last few weeks. Good price too and I know this is important to you as I have some Scottish in me
Hi,
I made my own out of Kunifer a few years back, after I read an article in Practical Classics about it and the advantages over copper. I think the price on here is very reasonable and as a made up kit saves you having to source new connections, as I did.
There is some satisfaction in making your own but I think I'd be very tempted by this if I need some replacements at any point.
Best wishes,
Mike.
1954 Series 2: 4 door: "Sally" -- Back on the ground with (slave) wheels, now being sprayed by me, slowly......
1970 Triumph Herald 1200: "Hetty" -- Driven back from Llangollen in Wales (twice.....)
1952 Morris Minor MM highlight with sidevalve engine still fitted, wants work, so joins the queue for now......
I always forget about the postage.
I make my own as well after getting some made up pipes that had single flares where there should have been doubles....
Yes we can build you full sets, part sets etc. Really we can supply you the parts you need if you wanted to make your own, or we could make some for you.
bmcecosse wrote:Do DSN sell made up sets of kunifer pipes?? If so - let us know please. Other suppliers are still producing dangerous copper pipe sets...
Roy, when I bought my Series II Traveller (2012), I bought a full copper pipe set from BM (still not fitted to this day), but would this be OK with Silicone fluid, which is what the car was converted to, or should I not use it?
In the late 1990s, my then wife's Skoda Favorit had replacement copper brake pipes made up after an MOT failure for "surface corrosion", by the failing garage - seemed OK for a few years after, till I part exchanged it for a French diesel.
Regards, George.
'50 Low-light with 918 Side-valve engine,
'51 High-light with Side-valve 918 engine,
'55 4-dr with 803 engine,
'56 Traveller with 1098 engine.
The problem with copper pipes is fatigue cracking, due to work hardening of the copper - even just forming the flare end hardens the pipe at the neck - where it is susceptible to cracking. It's not a corrosion problem as such, and so the fluid has no relevance. Frankly - I would not use either the copper or the silicone...... Both poor ideas......
Didn't we have a discussion a while back about being careful where you secure the brake pipe on the rear axle with copper pipes? This was due to the rear cylinder moving up and down and so flexing the pipe between two effectively fixed points and causing work hardening.
Well the kunifer brake pipe set I ordered on E-Bay has arrived and I must say I am impressed. The pipes are labelled and a sheet is enclosed to match the pipes up to the correct positions. For information, for those that are wondering they are between copper and steel for stiffness. I am able to bend them in my hands OK even the bridge pipes, which are quite tight bends so fitting them should be a breeze and don't forget once fitted you can forget them as they don't rust.
Again I am not connected to the seller just sharing my experience. You could possibly get the same from other seller's just a shame they don't make it clear that they supply the pipes as Kunifer, Curpro/Nickel, Copper/Nickel 90/10, all the same thing and make that distinction in a search for brake pipes. When I searched all I could find was Copper and there was quite a few supplier’s but not clear as to whether they were just Copper or Copper/Nickel.
