Projects At Home During Lockdown

[Blackbird]

As a follow-up to post #688 where I was looking for a scanner to digitise 35 mm slides and negatives, thanks to everyone who replied - it was all valuable to get a sense of perspective. Like most things, you really do get what you pay for and it was a question of going through the features (and complexities) of the different bits of kit and balancing them against quality, ease of use and price.

To cut hours of my reading technical articles short, it boiled down to the Plustek Optifilm 8100 which is just for slides and negatives or the Epson V600 flatbed scanner which does photos too. The Plustek offered a slightly higher spec but after importing it, total cost would have been around $1000. The Epson V600 reviews are pretty good overall and it's available in NZ for $598. It has defect repair software and all sorts of other cool features. Nice to keep it local under the circumstances and ordered one from the Photo Warehouse in Auckland this morning. Looking forward to getting used to it and attacking our boxes of slides and negatives, especially the 1969 IOM TT and Transatlantic Match Races. Special thanks to Merv for mentioning Epson scanners and showing the quality of his scans

[James Deuce]

Just ordered HEL brakelines for the front. This should be a hilarious fucking disaster. Does anyone know a good painter?

[F5 Dave]

Just drape some of Heather's finest Manchester over the front end.

[merv]

Special thanks to Merv for mentioning Epson scanners and showing the quality of his scans

Nice thing about the flatbeds is you can leave a lot of your photos in the albums. I'm busy scanning some of my late brother's photos now and like many of ours they are all in those clearview cling film type albums which we used before the plastic pocket type came on the market in the late 80's. The photos have stuck well to the album pages and if you peel back the film and then try and remove the photos it bends them quite a bit so I try and leave them stuck on the page if I can and just scan with the film peeled back. Just wish now I had an A3 scanner as the album pages are bigger than A4, but I doubt the price of them is worth worrying about compared to just doing two scans of the one page after moving it.

I'm not sure what the other scanners are like but the Epson scan software is pretty good too with colour correction, backlight correction, dust removal and its Digital ICE function etc which are all very useful.

I look forward to seeing the results Blackbird.

[sidecar bob]

Just ordered HEL brakelines for the front. This should be a hilarious fucking disaster. Does anyone know a good painter?

I was going to write a sticky on how to bleed brakes, j see so many people fighting with physics.
If you have ever farted in the bath, you will be aware that air rises to the top, and quickly.
Don't try to drive the air to the bottom, try to let the fluid run to the bottom. Patience is the key.
Let the air come to the master cylinder, and if its got clip ons, don't mount the master cylinder on that crazy angle until all the air is gone.
If needs to be held, or mounted lever end up until all the bubbles are gone.

[TheDemonLord]

Tomorrow will hopefully be getting a big ol' tub of Gib Plus4, some sandpaper, new sanding block and then prepping all the knicks, dings etc. in the walls after stripping the wallpaper, so as to get the walls ready to paint.

[James Deuce]

I was going to write a sticky on how to bleed brakes, j see so many people fighting with physics.
If you have ever farted in the bath, you will be aware that air rises to the top, and quickly.
Don't try to drive the air to the bottom, try to let the fluid run to the bottom. Patience is the key.
Let the air come to the master cylinder, and if its got clip ons, don't mount the master cylinder on that crazy angle until all the air is gone.
If needs to be held, or mounted lever end up until all the bubbles are gone.

Just watched a video where a dude primed the dry lines through the bleed nipple on the caliper with a syringe and a rubber hose.

[Berries]

I love it when you talk dirty.

[husaberg]

Just watched a video where a dude primed the dry lines through the bleed nipple on the caliper with a syringe and a rubber hose.

it works so well its actually an official KTM tool for Brembo brakes.


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[James Deuce]

https://www.motoxparts.co.nz/p/brake...tool-nac-tools

Crikey.

[sidecar bob]

https://www.motoxparts.co.nz/p/brake...tool-nac-tools

Crikey.

They aren't needed if you have a bit of patience.
You should need barely a tablespoon more fluid than the system holds unless you are doing a fluid flush, which is probably a great opportunity.

[F5 Dave]

Cable ties if rubber hoses don't stay put on nipple when forcing fluid in. Vet should have large syringes. Conversation might be interesting.

I like to bleed the master cylinder banjo bolt early in the process. Wrap rag, loosen lever in, tighten, repeat. Check correct angle and tightness.

[sidecar bob]

I like to bleed the master cylinder banjo bolt early in the process. Wrap rag, loosen lever in, tighten, repeat. Check correct angle and tightness.

Standing the master cylinder vertical with the cap on & giving the lever a couple of shallow jabs has the same effect, but without the hassle or mess.
Or the need for three hands.

[Reckless]

https://www.motoxparts.co.nz/p/brake...tool-nac-tools

Crikey.

Motox parts are very good but I bought one of these and the hose doesn't fit the syringe very tight and there is no way for a cable tie because of a double collar on the syringe.
Secondly this method gets a bit of fluid laeking around the nipple because you have to loosen it to pressure back bleed.
Went back the the old way of bleeding top down.
In my case the system was fully stripped so no old fluid on there either.

[F5 Dave]

You can put plumbers thread tape to perform a temporary seal for nipple bleeding (yueew). The critical seal is at the taper at the sharp end of the inside against the caliper. Don't put tape down far end to be sure.

A mate gave me some catheter tube. The end bits seal against the nipples better than any bleed kit I've bought over the years.

I have a mityvac copy pump up vacuum tool now. Was in a tool buying mood. It's ok.