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Subject:Re: using and storing brake pressure bleeder
From:David Beierl
Date:Sat, 4 Dec 2010 15:36:20 -0500

At 02:49 PM 12/4/2010, Don Hanson wrote:
>    What I do is I leave the fluid right in the Motive bottle, I simply slip
>a sandwich bag over the screw on cap that goes onto the vehicle's brake
>fluid res....and I secure that with a tight rubber band or a zip tie...to
>keep the ambient moisture from the atmosphere from going into the system.

May not matter here -- but Saran Wrap is a much better vapor barrier
than even thick Polyethylene bags.  Even plastic gas cans will pass
gasoline vapor through the walls, and water is a much smaller
molecule than gasoline.

Yours,
David