Polished copper nickel brake line

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Restoring a 1963 Plymouth valiant with my father and son.

I'm very fussy about brake line fit and appearance. Normally I use stainless line and polish it upon final fitting.

A friend of mine suggested using copper nickel line and polishing it.

Anybody use it before? Any pictures? Does it bend and flare well? Thanks. Eric
 
Nickel/Copper brake line is fantastic to work with. Bends and flares easily.
 
Nickel/Copper brake line is fantastic to work with. Bends and flares easily.

How does it polish up? I'm having a difficult time finding good pictures of polished applications.
 
I used it and it is very ez to bend and it polishes ez, but has a copper color to it. I thought it would be more silver but it's not.
 
Not sure if it's the same thing, bit a buddy of mine had copper brake lines all through the 69 Coronet. I ripped that crap out, and put in factory style pre bent lines. Can't put a price on safety.
 
I found it very easy to work with but I have had trouble at times with a flare or 2 because it is softer than steel.
 
There's nothing wrong with Nickel/Copper brake lines in terms of safety. Some companies are using them OE on cars now. However, if you do go to ebay and buy some cheap **** super thin-wall line then you are taking a gamble on safety. There's several good quality brands to choose from for Nickel/Copper brake line.
 
I used it and it is very ez to bend and it polishes ez, but has a copper color to it. I thought it would be more silver but it's not.

That's my thoughts also. We like the look of polished stainless, and I don't know if the polished copper look will be right.
 
Nickel is stainless and is very strong for pressure, mixing it with copper makes it pliable,
 
Yup, I've used it, as said, easy to work with. It poishes up nice, but has a coppery sorta tint to it. I'll see if I can scare up a pic
 
We love it at work! I have personally used 528 rolls of it(25 foot rolls) on customers cars and trucks-we use only the S.U.R.&R. brand because it's USA made -it flares well,bends nicely,can be polished easily,doesn't rot when exposed to salt spray.and has thicker walls than the cheaper Chinese crap. I would never put steel on anything ever again-but that's just me. About the only vice it has is that sometimes the steel line fittings corrode inside the hole and cause them to seize to the line which is only an issue on every day driver cars at disassembly time. Hope this helps!
 
It is very soft to work with, I hate it because it is hard to get a straight section that actually looks "straight", I love it when I'm fishing it through a customer's rusty beater
instead of poorly routing it or disassembling half the car to get it in there. You definitely have to be "kid glove-ish" doing double flares, and You HAVE to polish it and coat
it with Never-Dull etc. because it will turn green & shitty if exposed to the elements if You don't.
 
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