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Re: lotus europa brake master cylinder

To: markr@eye.com
Subject: Re: lotus europa brake master cylinder
From: rgb@hal.com (Roger Bolick)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 09:07:25 CDT
I saw a weird method to break pistons loose.  Before giving up
on the TR6 slave cylinder which had been frozen for 8 years, I
tried this...

"Suspend the item in a large pot of water (don't have it resting
on the bottom) and bring the pot to boiling, wait one hour."

I couldn't understand what the hour meant, so I tried mine as
soon as it reached boiling, no change, don't know why, but I
left it on for the hour... the piston almost fell out.  I just
held the hot item with mits and hit it on a wood block...

I still don't believe this actually worked, so let me know.

Roger



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