>I'm glad someone has regurgitated this subject back to the board. I went to
>McMaster-Carr as suggested and printed out their catalog sheet. Not having
>the coach nearby, is our tubing 1/4" O.D., Dot Nylon 6??? What about the
>brass fittings? Are the "instant" fitttings those with the brass insert and
>nut? Couldn't find those in the online catalog. Where does everyone get
those
>to get rid of the plastic crap? Larry in MO, home of Harry Truman, Bill
>Bradley, and John Ashcroft, PB75 (we don't mention Tom Eagleton)
>
Don.t know the size right now, we don,t have the coach here right now,
we go down to get it next week. MSC has the brass fittings both compression
and slip in.
I,ve used both on the machines at work and have no problem with the
"instant"
on fittings, I have had to replace all the plastic fittings on the machines
due to cracking so I feel its worth the effort to get rid of them. I,ll
replace
the fittings on our coach but I have haven,t seen a reason to replace the
nylon
tubing, the only failures I,ve seen on the coach was with poly-line I used
when I installed the airhorns. But to be truthful the failures were in the
area
exposed to direct sunlight. the tubing not exposed is still flexable/plyable
so no problem there. MSC price for the 1/4 tubing is .23 per foot,
if someone will tell me the ID size of the GMC tubing I,ll get the part
numbers
and the prices from the catalog...
or wait until we get the "poop-mobile" back and I,ll measure the tubing
myself.
john & Brenda Szalay
73 GMC PD
