A bit similar to the black stuff that I just found in mine. It looks like
melted rubber. I assumed that it might be rubber scrapings ( from rubbing
on rough surfaces) or just old deteriorated rubber, mixed with brake fluid.
The rubber pieces coming out don't look that bad though. Maybe the cylinder
has never been cleaned out before?
Robert Duquette
Ottawa ON Canada
http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette
RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca
'65 RHD BRG Sprite
-----Original Message-----
From Charles Christ <cfchrist at earthlink.net>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: March 16, 2000 12:19 AM
Subject: oooooOOO that smell!
>ok question time! since i do not use lockheed brake fluid riddle me this!
>what is it derived from? i just disassembled 2 lockheed master cylinders
>and the stuff had turned into a brown black greasey goo that had the most
>unique stench! now i am familiar with standard alcohol based brake fluid
>and when that stuff gets old it turns into a granular gell wich eventually
>turns into a powder. i get to resurect a bunch of long term idle hydraulic
>components from time to time. i tried to wash out the stuff from the
>master cylinders in my safety kleen parts washer and the stuff gelled and
>actually stuck on the parts washer's brush and would not wash off!! so i
>decided that i was going to blast it with berekable 2+2 choke spray( nasty
>stuff capable of eating paint off stuff) and finally was able to get the
>stuff to melt and wash out! yuck! i needed to wash out the cylinders so
i
>could glass bead blast the parts before i checked them out any further(you
>know, the bore and gasket surfaces). actually i am sending out the lids
and
>fastners to be re cadmium plated along with an entire car worth of
hardware.
>if i send this stuff with any foregin chemicals to platers i could
>contaminate their tanks and risk loosing my source for plating. i always
>try to present the plater with clean ready to plate hardware, no rust, no
>undercoating or grease or sealer stuck on parts.
>
>so what is the mystery lockheed goo? or better yet what wasit before it
>turned into goo? it can't be unobtanium from crashed ufo's from the new
>mexico desert.....naaah!
>
>chuck.
>
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