The 1/16" restriction is built into the standpipe on the Fram or AC canister- - - -it wouldn't matter if the lines were 1" diameter pipe. The ID of every flex hose I've ever cut into has been around 3/16", BTW, which will flow far more volume than can squeeze itself through that 1/16" hole.
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
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