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Subject:Re: home made pressure bleeder
From:neil N
Date:Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:31:46 -0700

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

> I have not tried that one but I have tried a Mity-Vac which is
> essentially the same thing. �I found it did not work very well. �It
> seemed to always suck air in around the threads of the bleed screws and
> not really get the air our of the system.

Yah I had similar troubles with the vacuum type bleeder. Might be
useful for other things, but not bleeding brakes IMO.

It just "made" frothy brake fluid.  ;)

Neil.
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