Demon one-man Brake Bleed tool

[Old-Guy]

Some time ago, on the "Might be useful one day" principle, I saved the extending aluminium handle from Bettaware broom or similar - one of those that you twist to lock/unlock with a plastic hand grip on the end of the top section and a threaded plastic socket on the other.

Today I found the perfect use for it - much more useful than as a broom handle.

Remove rubber tip from redundant walking stick and jam over the end of the hand grip. Cut hazel fork (as in extremely short thumb-stick) from hedge and trim to fit tightly in the plastic thread.

Now instead of fighting to jam a broom between driver's seat and brake pedal:

• the forked end goes under steering wheel rim at the 6 o'clock position,
  extend the shaft so that rubber tipped end is on brake pedal, but don't lock
  press pedal down hard with heel and hold it down by locking the shaft.

I'll try to remember to take a picture some time.

[Stewart(oily)]

I have a length of timber for that very job, fits between the front of the seat and the brake, theres plenty of spring in the seat front. Only took me about twenty years of buggering about with Citroens before I got round to making it

[citronut]

Some time ago, on the "Might be useful one day" principle, I saved the extending aluminium handle from Bettaware broom or similar - one of those that you twist to lock/unlock with a plastic hand grip on the end of the top section and a threaded plastic socket on the other.

Today I found the perfect use for it - much more useful than as a broom handle.

Remove rubber tip from redundant walking stick and jam over the end of the hand grip. Cut hazel fork (as in extremely short thumb-stick) from hedge and trim to fit tightly in the plastic thread.

Now instead of fighting to jam a broom between driver's seat and brake pedal:

• the forked end goes under steering wheel rim at the 6 o'clock position,
  extend the shaft so that rubber tipped end is on brake pedal, but don't lock
  press pedal down hard with heel and hold it down by locking the shaft.

I'll try to remember to take a picture some time.

Old-Guy
you only just worked that one out

i have a telescopic paint roller hand/poll i use as a one man/person brake light testing tool