Re: ihc-digest V5 #211

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>John,
>I've reengineered the brake bleeding device,  Here are the changes so that 
>you
>won't have to get up and check the fluid.  ( make note..I have more junque
>parts laying around than I do money [ex-wife] ) I put the plate on the 
>milling
>machine and cut a groove an 1/8 th of an inch deep and 3 inches long on the
>bottom side of the plate. That is so fluid will travel to both reservoirs in
>the master cylinder. In the threaded hole i put a 1/4 x close nipple, then a
>quater inch ball valve, after a lot of hunting I found another nipple, two
>1/4" x 1 1/2" bell reducers, and a piece of 1 1/2 pipe about 9 inches long
>put all this top of the plate and put my air coupling in the very top. This
>gave me a reservoir for brake fluid and a valve to turn off so i won't spill
>too much.   Maybe this contraption will help you bleed the whole system (?)
>I love solving problems like this...maybe that's why I do it for a living!
>
>Tim Smith

Tim,
Sounds good to me. I like the valve at the bottom of the reservoir too so 
that you can get your device off with out draining the tank. Must look a 
little strange when in place, but it sounds as if it couldn't help but 
work.
John


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