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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:46:18 +0000
From: canford@dial.pipex.com (Peter Barton)
Subject: Nipple contest results

NIPPLE RESULTS:   the fight of the century

Yes at last !    The results of the contest between man and machine.

The contest was held last Sunday on a cold wind swept concrete venue.
Nipples, as the defenders, were wearing a thick coating of dissimilar metal
corrosion in the Blue corner and man, wearing  a rather jaunty blue boiler
suit and a smile in the Red corner.

ROUND ONE

        The bell sounded and both contestants sprang into action.   After a
brief tussle the contestants were level pegging and no one was giving
ground. At this point the Red corner pulled a sneaky trick (as suggested by
a ringsider) and poured boiling water over the other contestant.  After a
few more blows  the rear offside nipple eventually got the upper hand  and
sheered off  ! ! !    Which was closely  followed by a tirade of abuse from
the Red corner.

ROUND 2

        Swiftly moving to the opponents other rear quarter  hoping to catch
his opponent by surprise the Red corner deftly removed, wheelnuts, wheel
and drum and by repeating the old boiling water trick of round one, took
the Blue corner completely by surprise.  With hoops and howls, the Red
corner could see his  opponent all loose and floppy with a small trickle of
brake fluid coming out of the hole in the middle.

ROUND 3

        After a brief pause for refreshments the titanic struggle
continued.  The Red corner, now riding on a high after the success of the
previous round  was hoping to repeat its success in round 3,  but this was
not to be the case,  the front offside nipple was in belligerent mood.  And
after many, what seemed like hours of struggle,  his head came clean off
leaving Red corner gasping and exhausted.

ROUND 4

        More refreshments, this time of a stronger kind, and cat calls from
the ringside of "Smack I'm off in one" .  This was unfortunately Reds
undoing,  (or not, if you see what I mean)  full of bravado and beer Red
gave him the full treatment. First the hot water quickly followed up by
three fast and furious jabs with the left,  and it was all over.  His neck
snapped just like cocktail stick and rolled around on the cold concrete.

FINAL RESULT:         Nipples 3 (Blue corner)          Man 1 (Red corned)

        I have now needless to say, fitted three new wheel cylinders, and
the bruised and battered knuckles are beginning to heal.

 Oh! and thanks for the tips guys.

Regards,
.........................................................................
          Peter Barton            e-mail:  canford@dial.pipex.com
          Computer Dept.          Phone :  +44 (0) 1202 841254
          Canford School
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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 19:31:01 +0100
From: lopezba@atnet.at
Subject: Re: Nipple contest results from Austria

Peter - *very* nice writeup! Thanks!
I must admit I thoroughly mistrusted the boiling water method since these 
things are just cathodically corroded together (which reminds me - one of 
the purchasers at a company I used to work for once ordered Catholic 
Corrosion Protection - I still wonder what that would have been like...). 
Maybe boiling water would work in an all-steel environment.

Anyway, I took my camping cooker along this morning, willing to try 
anything, but tried conventional methods first (ie the correct socket, long 
handle, rested arm and a grim facial expression). 

First bleed screw (left front): a short struggle, then slow yielding (on the 
part of the screw) and a small trickle of brake fluid. Opened and closed it 
several times. 
Second bleed screw (left hand rear): ditto, but with a different-size 
socket, funny enough (7/16 vs. 10 mm  in front. Old vs. new?)
Third bleed screw (right rear): already pre-sheared by SPO. Wrong wheel 
cylinder supplied by extremely expensive local specialists, so better luck 
next time. 
Fourth bleed screw (right front): wheel cylinder already exchanged two weeks 
ago due to pre-sheared bleed screw.

The score in Vienna:
Current Owner 2, Previous Owner 2, Local Specialists 1, bleed screws 0, 
camping cooker 0 (had to stay on the reserve bench).

Probably if I had tried boiling water on the two existing screws I would be 
swearing by this method by now. Just goes to show.
Good luck with the wheel cylinders and the bleeding - I highly recommend 
Eezibleed, BTW, works like a charm.
Regards

Peter Hirsch
SI 107in S/W
Vienna, Austria (officially 1,000 years old this November 1)

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