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On 21 Oct 2004 at 0:44, Dave Hall wrote: > I hope you're well-protected in case you get a cracked housing some day, Jim. > You're pretty precious on the list, not to mention other people. Thanks for the kind thoughts, but it's completely harmless. Since water is virtually incompressable, there's no stored energy, as there would be with air. This way when the pistons come out, they just drop quietly and harmlessly out of their bores. This is completely different from what happens when you do this with air, as suggested in all the manuals. I used air when I first started doing this, but it was truly terrifying. If you had your hand placed wrong you could lose a finger. Remaining bits of brake fluid would spray everywhere. Pistons would fire across the caliper and damage themselves and anything on the other side. It was NUTS! Yeah, and I'd have to be truly nuts if I was thinking of doing this with 1500 psi air! ;-) -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~