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You could bodge a cable brake cable to working again with any old cable or even several lengths together.
If you lose your brake fluid you're screwed without new fittings, fluid and a bleed kit(devils advocate, I have hydros)
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I run both mechanical discs and full hydro on different bikes... I gotta say, full hydro is way better. It's cheaper for equivalent stopping power, the cables are more bendy and whilst you can't fix it on the road (or trail), the likelihood of anything actually going wrong is much lower. Plus there's less ongoing maintenance. I think mechanical discs only make sense when you want to take an old groupset and put it on a disc frame.
mind_maze
Yeah but compression-less housing is even more rigid than hydraulic lines!