Omega Owners Forum
Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: TheBoy on 01 October 2014, 21:09:24
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For brake pipe to rear caliper?
Is it imperial?
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Metric 10 or 11mm
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Same all round I thought?
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9mm too small, 10mm too big :-\
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9.5mm is 3/8 but it would seem very odd to have an imperial fitting on a German made car..
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Rust or some ham fisted idiot has rounded it off. Once they get to that stage it's not worth spending much time trying to undo the thing to save the pipe. Cut the pipe off with side cutters, move the caliper to a sturdy vice and undo the knackered fitting with whatever tool it takes.
Make a new brake pipe and reassemble.
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Wire brush on it. 9mm
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15" adjustable wrench :y
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Wire brush on it. 9mm
Or use very small file to clean up the faces until the 9mm spanner is a snug fit. (& paint or coat with grease after)
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I though they were 9mm :-\
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I though they were 9mm :-\
He told me they where 9mm....
.....as that size is missing from one of the Halfords sets Blah blah, and all that.
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Pipe nuts should be 11mm and the bleed screw 9mm, well that's the size of new ones
Andy
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Damn. I'm thinking of bleed nipples. Bollards.
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15" adjustable wrench :y
Fark me, what are you changing the brakes on? 15" fittings! ;) ;D
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Perhaps he needs these ??
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Heavy-Duty-Stilsons-PipeWrench-Industrial-Quality-48-Carriage-FOC-/171444109908?pt=UK_DIY_Materials_Plumbing_MJ&hash=item27eadd8254
:)
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Damn. I'm thinking of bleed nipples. Bollards.
Trust you to be thinking nipples!!!!! Guess I was too ::) ::)
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Damn. I'm thinking of bleed nipples. Bollards.
Trust you to be thinking nipples!!!!! Guess I was too ::) ::)
Nipples that bleed? :-\
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Damn. I'm thinking of bleed nipples. Bollards.
Trust you to be thinking nipples!!!!! Guess I was too ::) ::)
Nipples that bleed? :-\
No ..... just nipples ::)
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Good set of tweezers and some strong fingers :)
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15" adjustable wrench :y
Fark me, what are you changing the brakes on? 15" fittings! ;) ;D
Tis what I use for such situations... well defined jaws and a bit of leverage :y
Helfrods do/did a nice little set of spanners for such fittings, which will take a tap or two from sammy, either to install them or to turn them :y
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Ahh… 15" handle, not 15" jaws :-[
Good set of tweezers and some strong fingers :)
That would definitely make my nipples bleed..
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Ahh… 15" handle, not 15" jaws :-[
Good set of tweezers and some strong fingers :)
That would definitely make my nipples bleed..
That's what I thought Al meant too ;D
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I though they were 9mm :-\
He told me they where 9mm....
.....as that size is missing from one of the Halfords sets Blah blah, and all that.
Yer nips, Gixer, 9mm is for yet nips.
:P
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.....as that size is missing from one of the Halfords sets Blah blah, and all that.
Aye, that current generation of all sub 200pc Hellfrauds sets are missing 9 and 18mm, both used on Omegas. The 170 and 200pc are ratchet spanners, which I'm guessing do not like hammers. Did I mention I miss my old 150pc sets? :'(
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I though they were 9mm :-\
He told me they where 9mm....
.....as that size is missing from one of the Halfords sets Blah blah, and all that.
Yer nips, Gixer, 9mm is for yet nips.
:P
Needs something bigger than 9mil for my nips big boy ;D
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if not metric or a/f, try whitworth or bsf, failing that a gas torch !!