Jawohl!

I guess it is funny how things are depending on how north we are on the continent... in Florida, so hot, nothing rusts, but rubber is at risk. I don't think I have ever seen a problem with a rubber line, but always the steel lines rust and leak and burst.

I went to parts store and bought a 3/16 x 60" line with fittings, guy gave me two, one "Japanese" and one "American" as the fittings were different, one big, one small. He looked hard for a union (blue) that fit the big one. I say, well, car is German... BRD is closer to America than Japan, but was allied with Japan during the war

Then I get home and notice the unions of either one fit on either one... the fitting threads are the same, just the hex on one is bigger than other, maybe one is 10mm and the other 13 ()

The weird thing was the bill. Somehow the cost of the lines with two male fittings was $0.89 each (I thought, great!) but the cost of the lesbian union was $4.95. Big thing little money, little thing big money...