brake bleeder nipple ceased

The message from "Mike G" contains these words:

It certainly seems to get a good deal muckier at the wheel end than the reservoir end.

C'mon, you've *got* to do more than congratulate him.

If you won't, I will.

Ladies and Gentlemen of Usenet, tonight is a special night, a night most of you will never forget and I'd like to thank you all for taking the time and effort to attend this post. I know most of you are waiting for the highlight of the evening, the "More Clueless than Clueless Ken" award for 2007. Well, tonight we have a surprise for you, this year the organisers have decided to combine the "most clueless" award with another very special new award "The Steve H was right about you / it / something" award.

As a quick reminder for those new to the ceremony, Clueless Ken - a.k.a Chris Stevens - was a know it all who knew nothing about anything but used Usenet as a platform to make himself feel less stupid - this plan was doomed to fail. Even Usenet newbies aren't that stupid.

Steve "HFM" H is a different breed altogether. Quite a nice chap on the sly, occasionally witty, but with a morbid fixation about the never ending and "Devastatingly quick cross country weapon" wonders of Fiat and VW Group produce. In a similar fashion to a System of a Down fan, he can't see that most of it is s**te and it's all based on the same thing to start with, but he will repel thoughts of other vehicles being good with an almost evangelistic vigour. Although a Nissan Primera once slipped through the net and into his ownership with comical results.

Mark T, although your post did actually contain information not gleaned from a back issue of Car magazine and was in the large part correct, I have the pleasure of awarding you the "More Steve H than Clueless Ken" award for

The message from "MrCheerful" contains these words:

We had a leaflet from the local dibbles about garden shed security.

"While your away on holiday tell the neighbours when you will be back and whose got a key".

Problem is that few will notice and fewer still will say anything.

The message from "MrCheerful" contains these words:

Oh, it's the local beat copper - I shall rib him mercilessly when I next see him.

Except that the m/c had a plain screw cap without any electrical connections. The black plastic float was exactly the same shape as a 'Smartie', but only about half a mm smaller than the inside diameter of the reservoir. As I see it, an effective way of reducing the surface area of the brake fluid exposed to atmosphere. I can't see it having any other purpose. On most of the m/c's with low level monitors that I've seen, the float is quite small, and fitted inside an open 'tube' attached to the two part cap itself. Which has of course a pair of wires connected to it. Mike.

DING!

I don't think there's any particular advantage in using a copper based grease, over plain grease. Personally I use a waterproof grease, mainly because I use it at work, and unlike most greases, inc copper grease, doesn't get washed off exposed portions of threads on bleed nipples, bolts etc. Mike.

The message from Ian contains these words:

"A mix up...they had made a mistake"

Yeah, they mistakenly tried it on with someone who was ready for them.

Trading Standards should have taken a few weeks over this and put in a ringer or two first to make sure the garage couldn't claim they "like to think this is a one-off" by nailing them properly instead of letting them get away virtually scot free. A 2k fine for a big dealership like that barely pays for a week's nail varnish for the receptionist.

This stuff's nothing new. A friend had his bike serviced some time around 1980 and marked the various items that should have been disturbed with clear varnish - and nothing had been done except an attempt to lighten his wallet.

It does seem OTT, but I've done it twice as a last resort and it's worked well both times. As Guy says, possibly the massive heat was the 'real' reason, but by that stage you've stopped caring - you just want the damned thing to come undone....