[Closed] Homebrew - Avid Bleed Kit anybody want one???

Yes please

I'm in

tick

Yes please.

Top marks for proactiveness.

Done deal, count me in too

yes please

Yes please.

Hi, I'l buy one please if there's still any goin, email in profile if you need to contact.

Cheers!

Room for one more I think, gonna order the bits now

Cheers. Let us know payment details and I'll get a fiver to you asap.

Yes Please, if there is one more available I'll have one ta. Good Work. andyluxton@hotmail.co.uk

I'll take one if they are still going . Cheers.

one more here please if poss (email in profile) if not could you get another couple of the M5 Barbed Fittings? I already have pipe, syringes etc happy either way.

All ordered, actually spent

£23.91 + £4.44 + £8.03 + £3.99

so [b]£40.37[/b] to make up 10 kits

Look at that!! under budget 🙂

Sorry gonna have to do it on a 1st come / 1st served (but if anybody jibbs)

1. Me 🙂
2. BoardinBob
3. bassspine
4. monkfish
5. Rob Hilton
6. Zoolander
7. meikle_partans
8. kevin1911
9. mike_check
10.andylux

1st reseve stanfree

Wharfedale the M5 barbs cost pence but it's the postage that kills them
I got them from http://uk.rs-online.com and the stock no is 686-2643

There used to be a RS counter near the Armley Gyratory

ah but your forgetting the Avid kits also come with a little Torx key and a bottle of DOT fluid 😆

I am sure you'd get a tenner per kit on ebay for that: someone does similar with o-ring kits for forks.

Torx key and a bottle of DOT fluid

and instructions and warranty not included 🙂

I can include a Post it note with "MTFU" written on it if needed

Can you put me down as another reserve, unless we can get another 10?

If they work okay and people are happy then I'm happy to make another 10 up (based on demand)

Cheers Tiger6791, Let us know when you want the dough.

Good work! 😀

Send us your payment info including postage etc and I'l get it sorted fo ya!

Cheers once again!

Long shot (so slow), 1 more if poss. Cheers!

Plus 1 for me. Damn not having a 'job' where i can browse stw all day.

If you were to make up another 10 I would take 1 off you .

is it also worth pointing out they would work with Formula brakes too?

Nice one tiger. As with the others pm me or email me with details as and when you want the spondoolies

cheers

Another note of interest for a second batch and/or drop outs.

I'll take one.

By my reckoning, we're at:

1. Stanfree
2. Wharfedale?
3. thesurfbus
4. thebunk
5. singletrackmind
6. stevious
7. ntreid

Zut alors!

If there are any left I'll take one!

put me on the list please, preferably on the one that ends at number 7 ... ;+)

mail in profile cheers

i'll have one please. e-mail me.

did I get in the next 10? if not where did you order from and I'll do another order.

We'll see how the 1st batch go, if they are good and work I'll order more bits

if there is any space ill take one as the avid kits are overpriced

Oh me too please for the 2nd batch - email in profile. Also have no problem if you want to charge a wee bit more to cover your time.

i'll jump in on the second list too if there's room, cheers.

Can you put me down for one? I guess we're on list 3 by now!

Yes please! Email in profile 🙂

Tiger, do we have instructions on how to pay yet? I'm more than happy to pay above cost to cover your time and the nice gesture.

Nah, I'll ask for the money once I've got all the bits, know the postage cost and tested it works okay.

I'm not worried about my time so it will be to the penny of what it cost me.

Not doing this to make a profit, although somebody should, and I'd be happy to send anybody the source of the bits.

I reckon cost will be just under a fiver posted, so if somebody could be bothered (joblesstrackworld?) to sell them at £9.99 here (i'd have bought one at that), Bikeradar, ebay etc. Make a fiver per sale. Sell 50 of these and you have £250 in your back pocket. Sell a 100 and so on....

can you let me know the (source) details please?

Ta

Yep, when I've tested it, don't want to send people up the wrong path until I know it works all the bits fit together etc.

I did this for my mates in a half arsed kind of way.
So, I got the syringes, tubing (make sure it's brake fluid proof), fluid and barbs. then I found out that Juicy threes have a different bleed port and wouldn't work with the barbs I have, so I gave up.

Anyone wants a kit (including 100ml Rock Oil fluid) for £10 including postage, email me (as long as you haven't got 3s).
I'm not doing any more of these once they're gone - I could just do with clearing the box of crap under my desk.

no idea if the hose is brake fluid proof?

Barbs and hose arrived today, hopefully these look like the right thing?

I'll be testing on my Avid Elixir so won't be able to test Juicy 3s

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You can check the hose. Fill it with fluid and leave it overnight - if it's the wrong stuff it'll be on the outside of the tube by the morning.

I think you're in the same boat as me with the barb - doesn't look like that'll fit in the body of a 3.

How about the Juicy 5?

Juicy 5s are fine - they have a different bleed port.

...but even the proper avid bleed kit only comes with the one size of barb. ❓

Am I too late to put my name down for the second batch?

Can I get down on the fourth/fifth/sixth list please!

Tiger any update ?. Is it looking like It wont fit Juicy 3's as I badly need to bleed mine and LBS are charging £15 a brake to bleed so around the same price as a kit. Would be good to get a homebrew kit to try It.

Got all the bits, not sure about Juicy 3s, may need a little extension.

Will be making them up next week.

Very interested to hear how this works. If the reserve list is still in action I'd buy a kit from you Tiger.

can i please take one.thanks.
can i just send you the money now(paypal gift) and i,ll wait for the next lot.cheers

...but even the proper avid bleed kit only comes with the one size of barb.

Not all barbs are the same....

any spare kits ?

can i be put on a list for one as well please. thanks

Add me to the growing list please, if there is going to be another batch done - thanks, and well done for the initiative.

I think you'll find that the barb's on the Sram kit have a shoulder on them that makes it longer so it fit's into the recessed bleed port on the Juicy Three calliper. The OP's barb won't fit - based solely upon the photo.

It may also struggle to fit into the bleed port of a Juicy lever and Code brakes too.

so tiger6791, have you made up all 375 kits yet?

Nah, and sorry to all who want one, bogged down with work at the moment so haven't put them together will do soon. Sorry guys for my tardiness

i'll have one. let me know details on here or email is theflatboy at gmail dot com. 🙂

having recently done a couple of bleeds - juicy 7 and 3 here's what I learnt:-

* off the shelf barbs/fittings are not long enough for the juicy 3 caliper or the Juicy lever. The juicy 3 caliper bleed port is right next to a shoulder and you need a long threaded section/long narrow kneck on the barb to reach it - otherwise the bard will bottom on the caliper shoulder before you even reach the thread. The juicy lever bleed port is thread is really rather recessed and so for the same reasons as above, you need a long thread/narrow 'kneck' to the barb.

* many syringes have the outlet offset to one side of the body of the syringe, so air bubbles actually get held in the top of the syringe cone rather than dissappearing up the tube - unless you're very careful to angle the syringe to make the outlet the highest point. easy to get air stuck in the syringe. the avid ones have the outlet in the middle of the cone in the end of the syringe.

* the proper bleed kit comes with spacers which replace the pads and click in place whilst you bleed. mighty useful.

For the reasons above, I gave up on my homebrew bodge kit and shelled the 30 quid for a bleed kit from Merlin...

Glad I did in hindsight, as the kit is just so easy to use - rather than working around bodges all the time. Yes, it's very expensive for what it is... but it does do the job very well. I'm normally very much a make you own kit kind of bloke, but I do actually recommend the pucka bleed kit, particularly if you have Juicy brakes... merlin's cheapest place on the web (and ebay...).

Anybody got theirs yet? Does it work?

If yes i'd be interested in one 🙂