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Subject:blown brake line
From:Don Spence
Date:Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:37:38 -0600

To say nothing of the civil liabilities involved should it fail and
you kill or seriously injure somebody...  Use the correct parts!

On 13-Aug-09, at 2:34 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> You already know that compression fittings are not safe for brake
> lines -- are you asking us to tell you "go anead and use them
> anyway?"  Because we're not going to.
>
> As someone who's had an improper (copper, actually) brake line fail
> in my milk truck at the top of a hill I can say a) it's downright
> scary and b) suicide is in some sense your own business, but the
> health of your riders and of nearby people and property is
> definitely not.
>
> Cheers,
> David

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