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    I may be a bit biased since I won't use SS even for 3/16 brake lines, but, you are really making a lot of work for yourself using 3/8 SS. My favorite is nicopp line since it is easy to bend and to flair. Good luck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CraigS View Post
    I may be a bit biased since I won't use SS even for 3/16 brake lines, but, you are really making a lot of work for yourself using 3/8 SS. My favorite is nicopp line since it is easy to bend and to flair. Good luck.
    https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/...rm=nicopp+line
    I hear you on that and while I didn't find using the SS for the brake lines that hard for bending, if I didn't have the just about idiot proof eastwood flaring tool I doubt I would have been able to go the stainless route. At build school they had some of the nicopp line to show how easy it was to work with.
    My reason for going stainless to begin with is growing up in southern Ontario Canada and living with the impact of salt and sand on roads pushes me to use materials that don't rust so much and can stand the sand blasting. This is not a winter car I know but here in Colorado they use crap on the roads that is almost as bad and we get enough good weather in between the snow where the car will be on the road. Since I have the choice I decided to take on the stainless hard lines. I have never run break lines or fuel lines before so I guess now I have learned to do it with a not so easy material
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    Quote Originally Posted by CraigS View Post
    I may be a bit biased since I won't use SS even for 3/16 brake lines, but, you are really making a lot of work for yourself using 3/8 SS. My favorite is nicopp line since it is easy to bend and to flair. Good luck.
    https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/...rm=nicopp+line
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