REFLECTOR: brake lines

michalk michalk at awpi.com
Tue Mar 7 17:14:16 CST 2006


Man, you are going to have to get skilled at
1) reading between the lines
2) resigning yourself to the fact that you'll build most everything twice
3) cutting a few really nasty large holes to get something done "because 
it's fiberglass, no one will know"
4) knowing that the cut lines are "just suggestions"
5) knowing your airplane is really a banana

Even though there are 1,001 ways to build a Velocity, in the end, if the 
canard is square to the wing, and the wheels are true, then it's going 
to fly better than any spam-can.

Go ahead and run your nylaflow the way the manual says.  It's cheap, go 
ahead and do it.  The actuality of it is that unless you are one of 
those ultrafast factory build guys that does it in 30 days, you'll 
replace your nylaflow, or someone here finds something that's even 
better, like aluminum tubing that you mentioned, or you'll accidentally 
nick it while installing something else.  Or, you'll always look at it 
and think to yourself that there's a better way and you'll rip it out 
even though there's nothing wrong with it.

Grigore Rosu wrote:
> I just finished installing the master cylinders in my SEFG and now I'd like
> to install the nylaflow brake lines.  The manual says that I should drive
> them through the pilot airduct, all the way down till right before the
> firewall, then have each brake line go to its corresponding leg.  I


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