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Re: [Roadsters] Brake Bleeder Balls

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Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Brake Bleeder Balls
From: Vince Strazzabosco <vstrazzabosco@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:29:46 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions on the balls.  I found a small ball
bearing at a hardware store that should work.  I use a pressure bleeder, and
have never found myself looking for speed bleeders.  Money that could be spend
on other needed parts...

Thanks!

vince

--- On Mon, 7/27/09, Pete Peters
<ppeters914@comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Pete Peters <ppeters914@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Brake Bleeder Balls
> To: "Datsun Roadster List"
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Date: Monday, July 27, 2009, 11:02 AM
>
....or just remove the balls and
> replace the stock bleeder screws with Speed
Bleeders. 
> 
> Pete 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "robert k.
smith" <rksmith46@hotmail.com>
> 
> To: vstrazzabosco@yahoo.com,
> "roadster
list" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> 
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009
4:55:08 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada
> Pacific 
> Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Brake
Bleeder Balls 
> 
> hi vince, ive used little metal balls from old carburator
> kits, or some times 
> a hard ware store might have something in faucet
repair 
> 
> kits. ive used most any size ball that will fit in the
> hole,
but not 
> 
> fall through the bottom of the hole. good luck, bob smith,
>
ohio 
> 
> > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:36:50 -0700 
> > From:
vstrazzabosco@yahoo.com
> 
> > To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> 
> >
Subject: [Roadsters] Brake Bleeder Balls 
> > 
> > Okay, so I lost it. 
> > 
>
> I managed to get all the brake bleeder screws loosened
> on my rescued form
> the junkyard '66 1600. In cleaning out the calipers with
> Q-tips, I lost
one of 
> the little balls that seals the bleed hole. 
> > 
> > Now the tough
part...where to find another ball? I
> don't know if the local 
> hardware
store would have the correct size, or even what is
> the correct size. 
> > 
>
> Any leads are much appreciated! 
> > 
> > vince 
> >
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