Being a little bored today, and feeling like I should at least do somthing towards the resto, for fun I thought I might try to mock up the brakelines to my new master. Perhaps put some loops in them. From NAPA I bought 2-60" 1/4" brakelines with armour wrap and nuts already on them. I cut one end off and fitted the appropriate flare nut and replaced the wrap. I'd thought of just wrapping them around a paint can, but no...that just wouldn't be precice enough. So I screwed an old piece of particle board down (in the center) onto my bench, loose enough that it would rotate on that screw. Centered on it I then screwed down a holsaw bit of the diameter I thought the loops should be. With the flared end and tube nut in place to the left of the holesaw, I placed two screws on either side of the nut, tight on the line. To use it, hold the free end of the line firm, and rotate the wood counter clockwise, letting the line climb the other at each revolution. For a line fed in the other direction, I move the screws mirror image to the right side of the holesaw bit. Although I may not keep the line loops configured with the master as shown, it works pretty good, the loops came out pretty even. Easier than fumbling the line around a tube or can!
Cheers, Mark
-- Edited by cdnpont at 21:03, 2009-02-06
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Good work. It's those little attention to detail things that make the difference. I know when I look at a car it sure gives me a better impression of the car and the guy that did it. Good stuff. None of us have an excuse now for hoacky looking brake lines.
Yea Steven, you'll be needing to loop some lines soon... If you beat me to completion I'll give it all up. Actually, will you be needing a rotissierie? I hope to be done with it by the fall. I'll probably have some other jigs and stuff available to help with your job.
It's funny how the even the simplest little things can keep your restoration momentum going in the winter, when you don't have a garage and can't really work on anything else! Not doing anything can be fatal to the morale.
Spending money can help too, I just sent my wiper motor to Illinois today to have it restored!
Cheers, Mark
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
Yea Steven, you'll be needing to loop some lines soon... If you beat me to completion I'll give it all up. Actually, will you be needing a rotissierie? I hope to be done with it by the fall. I'll probably have some other jigs and stuff available to help with your job.
It's funny how the even the simplest little things can keep your restoration momentum going in the winter, when you don't have a garage and can't really work on anything else! Not doing anything can be fatal to the morale.
Spending money can help too, I just sent my wiper motor to Illinois today to have it restored!
Cheers, Mark
i figure to have the body off the frame with-in a couple of weeks. the race is on.
Yea Steven, you'll be needing to loop some lines soon... If you beat me to completion I'll give it all up. Actually, will you be needing a rotissierie? I hope to be done with it by the fall. I'll probably have some other jigs and stuff available to help with your job.
It's funny how the even the simplest little things can keep your restoration momentum going in the winter, when you don't have a garage and can't really work on anything else! Not doing anything can be fatal to the morale.
Spending money can help too, I just sent my wiper motor to Illinois today to have it restored!
Cheers, Mark
i figure to have the body off the frame with-in a couple of weeks. the race is on.
Oh god I can't wait to see it happen. Please hurry Steve.
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
