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Re: Squeeze Bottle

To: ryoung@navcomtech.com
Subject: Re: Squeeze Bottle
From: Diane and Roland Dudley <csx2282@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:01:09 -0700
Randall,

Sounds pretty neat.  But I'm not so sure it's a good idea to use
it both for oil and brake fluid.  You don't want to get even a small
amount of oil in your brake system.

Maybe make one for each use?

Roland


On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:14:24 -0700 "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
writes:
> 
> > In an earlier posting I mentioned that I don't like to use a 
> turkey
> > baster to empty brake reservoirs because they tend to dribble 
> fluid
> > when they're full.  While I was at the supermarket today, I 
> discovered
> > what looked like a better alternative.  In the barbecue supplies 
> section
> > I found a squeeze bottle baster.  It consisted of a plastic bottle 
> with a
> >
> > screw on top with about a 3" long metal tube sticking out of it.  
> The
> > tube's diameter was about 1/8", so I doubt it would dribble much, 
> if at
> > all.  And if you withdrew the tube while it was still sucking, you 
> could
> > pretty much guarantee no dribbling.  The price was about $3.50.
> 
> Can't beat that price, but for just a bit more geld I built a 
> "vacuum
> cleaner" that I rather like.  Cheap venturi (air powered) vacuum 
> pump ($10
> at HF), 1 qt canning jar with metal lid, some copper and rubber 
> tubing.  I
> built it to suck oil out of SU dashpots, but it also works well for 
> emptying
> float bowls, brake reservoirs, etc.  I even used it to suck out 
> battery acid
> once, but it wouldn't stand up to that very often.
> 
> Randall

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