Just going to throw this out there now as no time to read all the comments, have to go try this out on an old lever and see what it looks like, then I have 9 sets of brakes to do it to, ranging in age to my first set of XTs from 2012 to my newest set which are still quite old from 2016. Great bit Deniz, much appreciated from someone else who thinks that bang for buck and ease of maintenance, Shimano wins.
\[EDIT\] and that short lived :-( So all of mine are 9/10 era XT, SLX or Deore, so they don't have that, only XTR had that design back then. Do have 1 XTR lever from back then that I'll explore though if that's how all the newer Shimano brakes are, good to get to know it and to work on it, might be something that will really improve how they feel actually being able to wipe out the gunk alongside flushing the majority out with a full system flush.
March 29, 2024, 7:13 a.m. - Lynx .
Just going to throw this out there now as no time to read all the comments, have to go try this out on an old lever and see what it looks like, then I have 9 sets of brakes to do it to, ranging in age to my first set of XTs from 2012 to my newest set which are still quite old from 2016. Great bit Deniz, much appreciated from someone else who thinks that bang for buck and ease of maintenance, Shimano wins. \[EDIT\] and that short lived :-( So all of mine are 9/10 era XT, SLX or Deore, so they don't have that, only XTR had that design back then. Do have 1 XTR lever from back then that I'll explore though if that's how all the newer Shimano brakes are, good to get to know it and to work on it, might be something that will really improve how they feel actually being able to wipe out the gunk alongside flushing the majority out with a full system flush.