This is intended just as an addendum to the topic of rigid tubing. We will be running a full fittings article later on. Since I've been asked a few times, though, I just wanted to show briefly a ...

If you tinker around with cars very much, sooner or later you're bound to run into a problem involving tubing. Perhaps it's tube bending, tube flaring, types of fittings, or possibly all of these ...

Compression fittings for 1/16, 1/8, and 1/4-in.-OD tubing operate at high pressures and temperatures while maintaining a small envelope. The fittings, with miniature M3, 10-32, M5, and 1/4-28 threads, ...