copper brake pipes in panic stops?

["D. Dardalis" <dardal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sirs, the advantage of being an engineer is that sometimes you don't have 
to guess.  You just pull  out your calculator and let the numbers 
talk.  Again, I have not done any calculations, so you may be right.  But 
the fact that copper brake lines are used in England, Holland, and possibly 
other places, is an indication that this may not be the case.  Unless of 
course they do not practice panic stops over there! ;)

Of course, I am not about to replace my steel lines with copper any time soon!

D^2

At 06:36 PM 5/31/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Copper tubing is very soft & a panic stop may be all it takes to rupture a 
>line
>John
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:lexa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Leo Jormanainen
>To: <mailto:mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 8:08 AM
>Subject: Re: IML: copper brake pipes
>
>Hi,
>
>It doesn't need any calculations, copper tubing in any brake system
>is dangerous and illegal here in Canada.
>
>Leo
>QCI