Frans=2C
look at any Cessna etc.=2C you will find the 'bleed'nipple at the bottom.
Karl
> From: ptag.dev@tiscali.co.uk
> To: europa-list@matronics.com
> Subject: RE: Europa-List: Tri-gear Jamar brakes
> Date: Mon=2C 12 Oct 2009 21:40:42 +0100
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co.uk>
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> Hi! Frans.
> If you are filling oil from the bottom=2C(that is with the bleed (filling
)
> nipple at the bottom=2C as you say air rises so there will not be a pocke
t of
> it in the slave cylinder top=2C you will expel all the air out of the mas
ter
> cylinder. If the bleed nipple is at the top of the slave cylinder and you
> are trying to expel air downwards and back to the master cylinder it won'
t
> oblige!
> You are actually NOT using it as a "bleed" nipple in this application you
> are using it as a filling nipple to expel the air upwards and to the mast
er
> cylinder.
> Hope you understand? Exasperating isn't it ?
> Regards
> Bob Harrison G-PTAG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
> [mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Frans Veldma
n
> Sent: 12 October 2009 20:47
> To: europa-list@matronics.com
> Subject: Re: Europa-List: Tri-gear Jamar brakes
>
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>
> Robert C Harrison wrote:
> <ptag.dev@tiscali.co.uk>
>
> Hi Robert=2C
>
> > However=2C have you realized that the bleed nipple at the brake end nee
ds to
> > be on the bottom of the slave cylinder and the pipe connection to the
> master
> > cylinders need to be on the top?
>
> Why would that be?
>
> According to the manual=2C the bleed nipple should point forward (which
> happens to be the upper connector). I felt no suspicion doing it that
> way=2C because air tends to rise=2C so it seemed logical to have the blee
d
> nipple on top=2C that way any air in the caliper will collect near the
> bleed nipple. Apart from that=2C the brake line will then nicely follow
> the leg so the brake line won't dangle into the air.
>
> Maybe you are right that it should be the other way around=2C but could
> you please also explain why?
>
> Frans
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