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Re: [Shop-talk] storing brake components?

To: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] storing brake components?
From: David Scheidt <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:07:05 -0500
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com> wrote:
> If brake fluid is so awful, why do they use it in brakes?
>

Because storage and use are different things?  The brake system is
supposed to be a closed system, there's no ingress of air.  (old
English cars excluded....).  No air, no oxidation.  Brake fluid is
very good at what it does, which is transmit force, not compress, and
not boil.



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David Scheidt
dmscheidt@gmail.com
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