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From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 17 Dec 2009 06:43
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Mike Buckley
<Mike(a)hotmail.com> typed
>In message <bVGouA23tgKLJAM0(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk>, Wicked Uncle
>Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> writes
>>Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Mike Buckley
>><Mike(a)hotmail.com> typed
>>>The correct answer was to fix this before I gave the stuff to Beav
>>>for painting, but well....
>>>
>>>The reserve pipe on the CB72 tank is completely blocked with gunge,
>>>I've been working on it for two days with carb cleaner and various
>>>small tools and I've cleared it to where the external pipe bends 90
>>>degrees and enters the tank proper. What I need is a bendy rotating
>>>tool that I can push through with enough force to dislodge the fairly
>>>solid gunk[1]. What would be ideal is a bendy cutting tool for my
>>>Dremel but I can't find one and the flexible shaft extension is way too big.
>>>
>>>Any suggestions, apart from leaving it blocked and doing without
>>>reserve? The inside of the tank is in reasonable condition.
>>
>>Have you got a compressor?
>>
>Fraid not

Pah! Call yourself a man?

Go and buy one immediately. In fact, buy two as a penance.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

can you see the light of need shinin' in my eye?
From: Mike Buckley on 17 Dec 2009 08:02
In message <7ouk6kF3rcj5oU1(a)mid.individual.net>, sweller
<sweller(a)mztech.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>Mike Buckley wrote:
>
>> > Have you got a compressor?
>>
>> Fraid not
>
>It's the tool for this kind of job and I suspect it will be the only
>way you'll clear the blockage.
>


Unfortunately for my wallet I'm working in Nottingham on Monday, easy
walking distance from Machine Mart. I've been looking at compressors
with a view to getting some painting stuff again but I'd need meatier
than the basic models, so a bit pricey.

An alternative might be to bribe a local garage, I think it would be
cheaper.

Another alternative - anybody in Nottingham/Sheffield got a compressor?

--
Mike Buckley
RD350LC2
CB72
From: Steve on 17 Dec 2009 09:06
On 17 Dec, 10:35, Mike Buckley <M...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> The correct answer was to fix this before I gave the stuff to Beav for
> painting, but well....
>
> The reserve pipe on the CB72 tank is completely blocked with gunge, I've
> been working on it for two days with carb cleaner and various small
> tools and I've cleared it to where the external pipe bends 90 degrees
> and enters the tank proper. What I need is a bendy rotating tool that I
> can push through with enough force to dislodge the fairly solid gunk[1].
> What would be ideal is a bendy cutting tool for my Dremel but I can't
> find one and the flexible shaft extension is way too big.
>
> Any suggestions, apart from leaving it blocked and doing without
> reserve? The inside of the tank is in reasonable condition.
>
> [1] Cotton buds aren't strong enough.
bit of bowden cable with the end splayed out and the
other end in an electric drill?
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 17 Dec 2009 09:09
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Mike Buckley <Mike(a)hotmail.com>
saying something like:

> What I need is a bendy rotating tool that I
>can push through with enough force to dislodge the fairly solid gunk[1]

The inside of a scrap clutch or bicycle brake cable.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 17 Dec 2009 09:11
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Mike Buckley <Mike(a)hotmail.com>
saying something like:

>Just tried this - the ends of the cable were too stiff to go round the
>90 degree bend, and when I cut the cable and tried it just untwisted.

Numpty - you solder it before cutting it.
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