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jesse farr wrote:

> if you fellows really think that using this or that approved brake 
> fluid in something on an experimental aircraft with a rotary engine is 
> going to help you get some sympathy, much less help you find liability 
> where there is most likely none, go ahead, feel better. Remember, I 
> said non certificated aircraft.


Jesse, wasn't worried about insurance or sympathy.  The original 
question was why is a certain type of fluid used.  The answer was, 
'cause the fluid will eat your seals if you use the wrong type.  
Certified, approved, insured, etc...I don't care.  I would like the 
seals to work before I run off the end of the runway, though.

I now have new information, though.  Buna-n is the standard in 
automotive applications, so any standard automotive fluid should work.  
I'll still ask someone more knowledgable than me before I diverge from 
the 'standard', though.  Standards are a crutch for the ignorant.

-- 
This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against
instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make
mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their
decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."