Been there, done that, ain't doing it again! I was finished bleeding the rear
brakes and was putting the rubber cap back on the bleed screw. When I pushed
it on, it squirted one good drop of brake fluid into the corner of my eye.
Didn't get enough in my eye to do any damage, but it sure as hell got my
attention!
Ken Pearce wrote:
> On a separate issue, ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS wear protective eye goggles when
> bleeding your brakes! I learned this the hard way last week when I had a
> buddy pumping the pedal while I bled the front calipers. My hose on the
> bleed screw came loose as he was pushing the pedal down and I got a high
> pressure shot of brake fluid directly in my eyes! It was one in a
> thousand chance that it would squirt exactly towards my eyes, and as
> Murphy's Law requires, it did. After 20 minutes in the shower flushing my
> eyes with water and 2 calls to the poison hotline, the burning subsided
> and I sustained no serious damage. I point out my own stupidity here in
> the hopes of preventing others from repeating my mistake!
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Gordon Glasgow
Renton, WA
http://www.gordon-glasgow.org
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