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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