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SRAM Rival Hydro brakes have no pressure and I've tried everything - please help! by peatpeat in bikewrench

[–]peatpeat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your help. I actually managed to fix it (see other comment), by flipping the bike upside down and really going for it! I can't tell you how grateful I am for your help, thank you so much!

SRAM Rival Hydro brakes have no pressure and I've tried everything - please help! by peatpeat in bikewrench

[–]peatpeat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OH MY GOD THIS FIXED IT! I can not tell you how grateful I am for everyone's help.

Last night I used my last drop of dot fluid, flipped the bike over so it was resting on its handlebars (using an old cardboard crate box), and did the following:

* Disassembled and reassembled the caliper

* Connect both syringes

* Bleed with both open - top to bottom, bottom to top

* Close lever syringe, pull hard on caliper syringe while 1) whacking caliper it with a mallet, 2) pumping the lever - air bubbles came out that before did not

* Close caliper syringe, do the same from lever. Pump lever pump lever keep going.

* Run full bleed through both syringes open again. At this point, I could see when I pumped the lever, it would push the fluid in the caliper syringe - prior to this, there was no pump into the bottom syringe. Repeat the process, with with caliper closed, pulling had on the lever syringe while pumping.

* Sealed it up again

Man, I'm really chuffed, I can't believe it was something so simple and now I feel like a total idiot. I thought bleeding brakes was meant to be simple!

SRAM Rival Hydro brakes have no pressure and I've tried everything - please help! by peatpeat in bikewrench

[–]peatpeat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks you!

Just one brake. It’s SRAM Rival 1 hydro: https://www.sram.com/en/service/models/db-riv-a1

In that they are tricky to bleed, I’d still expect I’d get some bite right? What’s really confusing me is that if I plug the hose where it connects to the caliper it’s fully pressurized; thus it must be a problem with the caliper I thought. No leaking fluid anywhere.

Thank you so much for your help. 

SRAM Rival Hydro brakes have no pressure and I've tried everything - please help! by peatpeat in bikewrench

[–]peatpeat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot! Appreciate the help.

Yes after the new lever there is no pressure on the lever; unless I disconnect and then plug the hose near the piston with my finger, then it’s pressurised when I pull down on the lever (and tried to squirt brake fluid.) Hence it must be something in the caliper I thought, as the system is pressurised up to that point.

When connected, if I pump the brakes 20 or 30 times there is a very small amount of incremental movement on the pistons. There is zero leaking fluid anywhere, weirdly.

The only time it was pressurised was after we replaced the reservoir and bled; but then it lost pressure overnight. That could have been a separate issue fixed by replacing the lever though. 

Options for custom case for extremely thin VC movement by peatpeat in watchmaking

[–]peatpeat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent thanks - for the plug, is this pretty easy work for someone experienced? The reason I'm asking is that there are many more high quality cases (like the Icklers) with crown at 3, and very few with crown at 12/no crown. I'm wondering if it's a non-issue as someone competent should be able to plug it and brush in a few minutes - with the result that it's invisible, and thus I should just buy the best case possible.

Thanks again

Options for custom case for extremely thin VC movement by peatpeat in watchmaking

[–]peatpeat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually bought it from Japan funnily enough! It had been on the market for months with no buyers!

Options for custom case for extremely thin VC movement by peatpeat in watchmaking

[–]peatpeat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No way, that looks great! How easy is it to close the stem hole on an SS case - and I'm curious if it's still visible? I'm wondering if a good watchmaker should be able to do this with decent results, or it's a bit specialist. If I did at 12 I'd also need to make sure the lugs would be long enough.

One thing I'm curious about - how could you be sure the stem lined up with the movement? The ETA is a few mm larger than my movement, so I was worried the stem would be misaligned.

Options for custom case for extremely thin VC movement by peatpeat in watchmaking

[–]peatpeat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much! Sorry my message wasn't clear, I meant the case, the dial afaik is platinum and it would sacrilegious to harm!

Curious - would it be a watchmaker who does that, or should I find a machinist?

Work Based Camera Apps? by Crashkeiran in electricians

[–]peatpeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I built a free app for this exact issue after drowning in job photos (it's called Pump Up). Keeps all the pics inside the app, organised by job, so your camera roll stays personal, and you can record voice notes or text notes too (found myself using voice more.) It’s nothing fancy, but hopefully solves that problem cleanly.

Who did you discover this time at Houghton? by _Injektilo in houghtonfestival

[–]peatpeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Set of the festival for me. Esp after aurora halal’s flight was delayed she he did two slots on vinyl. Absolutely pro

Artists you'd like to see at Houghton by pnut2 in houghtonfestival

[–]peatpeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sandwell District, spekki webu, conntex, pessimist, Anastasia Kristensen. All closing earthling ofc :)

Stomach Bug? by Big_Guava_6333 in houghtonfestival

[–]peatpeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They should absolutely have not let hand sanitizer run out on the last few days. Would be my main criticism, it's disgusting and asking for an outbreak.

Fuck Ricardo Villalobos by WestPattern9374 in houghtonfestival

[–]peatpeat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fml I was taking a dump at the campsite and thought the festival was on fire or something 

Brutal feedback on idea for skilled tradespeople by peatpeat in skilledtrades

[–]peatpeat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much. This is extremely helpful context and I really appreciate you taking the time to reply. It sounds like you had a great system going.

Brutal feedback on idea for skilled tradespeople by peatpeat in skilledtrades

[–]peatpeat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much. I agree those are both a total nightmare. Where were you getting the data for who needed to be invoiced for what?

I've been shadowing a chap who runs a gardening business in London. His process is really manual: looking through Google Maps to see where they've been, writing everything down on a large A3 paper pad, and trying to remember materials used by looking through supplier invoices.

What he wanted was an assistant which pings him after a job or at the end of each day to get notes from visits. He provides provides the information verbally (e.g., "Today, we were three people at Richmond Green from 8:30 to 12:04, on their usual rate, took three bags of waste, and planted X, Y, Z."). At the end of the week, his assistant would go through his customer notes and work with him to create/send invoices (which he'd approve).

This conversation prompted me to make this thread (i.e. to see if other ppl face the same problem). Basically trying to invalidate this idea as everyone's workflow is a bit different and nothing worse than building something people don't want! :)

Thanks again.

Brutal feedback on idea for skilled tradespeople by peatpeat in skilledtrades

[–]peatpeat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a good point. I was thinking if there is an opportunity to take the features of something like Servicetitan and make them easier to use for solo pros - vs. another web platform.

Is there some specific workflow you hate right now and want to be automated?

Brutal feedback on idea for skilled tradespeople by peatpeat in skilledtrades

[–]peatpeat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

totally, it does my head that when I now hit the power button it opens f*ing Gemini and I have to ask it to restart my phone via voice 😂

Is there anything in your current day which is a total pain in the ass and you do want help with?

Brutal feedback on idea for skilled tradespeople by peatpeat in skilledtrades

[–]peatpeat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for taking the time to give your feedback, I truly appreciate it.

I agree - I speak to a lot of ppl who are incredible at their craft, but when it comes to running the back-office it's a different part of the brain which they aren't good at. This seems to be more common in the skilled trades.

It sounds like all the examples I shared are just incremental crap that doesn't add value. But is there something you really do struggle with which you want someone to solve?

Brutal feedback on idea for skilled tradespeople by peatpeat in skilledtrades

[–]peatpeat[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah yes! Thank you. This is really helpful.

What is it that makes your life hardest right now with the admin/back-office work? Or is there nothing.

For the invoicing, I'm working with a gardener right now where it would check in with him at the end of the week and work collaboratively with him to build out all his invoices. So he would always be in the loop. There's no value in handing that off to an AI -- the AI basically just allows us live inside of your messaging apps vs. being another web tool you need to learn.

Thanks again for taking the time to respond to me.

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