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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:23:28 -0500
From: Charlie England <ceengland@bellsouth.net>
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To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Brake Fluid
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Ernest Christley wrote:

> 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.
>
Of course, there's always the possibility that the docs were written 
wrong & they were trying to say that Clevelands *don't* have buna-n....

Charlie
<;-)