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- From: drew@ladymacb.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Dot-5 fluid
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.051057.14320@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <Bx9IJy.Hr6@trc.amoco.com> <1992Nov6.055521.13600@dsd.es.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 05:10:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.055521.13600@dsd.es.com> sbender@navajo.dsd.es.com (Steve Bender) writes:
- >I use the Dot-5 in my TR4's Girling system and have no complaints.
- >Aside from having to re-bleed the system a couple days after first
- >filling the system, it has required zero maintenance in 3-years
- >and performs perfectly. Some people claim that it should not be
- >used in extreme (racing) conditions which may have some validity,
-
- Silicon based fluids are somewhat compressable when hot.
-
- >but its greatest redeeming factor is, as you mentioned, that it
- >will not harm paint.
-
- Silicon fluids also have a higher wet boiling point than glycol based
- fluids do. In a street car, where the fluid spends months or years
- picking up moisture from the air, this is probably a good thing.
-
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
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