X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [66.75.162.134] (HELO ms-smtp-02-eri0.socal.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.4) with ESMTP id 1005886 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:40:14 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.75.162.134; envelope-from=murakamic001@hawaii.rr.com Received: from [192.168.123.105] (cpe-66-91-31-85.hawaii.res.rr.com [66.91.31.85]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.socal.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j5I4dQX7022070 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42B3A57E.3090907@hawaii.rr.com> Disposition-Notification-To: Carl Murakami Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:39:26 -1000 From: Carl Murakami User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Brake Fluid References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine I used to use a brake bleeder on my car which was made of aluminum. I also have a Mighty Vac hand pump that I also used to bleed brakes. Both of them corroded to the point that I had to throw them away. Lesson learned......don't let aluminum get in contact with standard automotive brake fluid. Carl Murakami ( from Hawaii....almost down under ) Ernest Christley wrote: > 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. >