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Mail From: "Doug Mallory" <(email redacted)>

I was racing in Savannah Ga. last weekend and went into a

discount parts house and they had about 4 cases of Castol LMA

on the shelf . I have not had any trouble finding it.

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Palmer <(email redacted)>
To: Mark <(email redacted)>; (email redacted)
<(email redacted)>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: Synthetic brake fluid


>At 08:26 PM 2/7/99 -0800, Mark wrote:
>>Anyone have any experience with Valvoline "Synpower" synthetic brake
>>fluid, good or bad experience?
>>
>Mark, et Listers,
>
>I guess this as good an excuse as any to bring up an idea maybe some of you
>others out there have also been considering. That is, maybe it's time we
>made up a list of "Frequently Asked Questions" or "FAQs". We could start
>with identifying the ten most frequent questions and then solicit
>volunteers to summarize the various responses they have generated; not
>always in agreement of course, but as fair and even-handed as possible.
>Hey, I'll volunteer to do one or even maybe two. The Laifman, if history is
>any indication, should be up for at least five or six. We may have a hard
>time finding someone to do the Alger FAQ, but the rest of them shouldn't be
>too terribly difficult. Heck, some of the better ones might be posted on
>Mark Olson's Tiger Web sight, .
>
>corpdemo.com/tiger/
>
>At the very least, we could download them to the new subscribers to get
>them properly initiated, or oriented I mean
>
>Oh yes, synthetic brake fluid. OK, I'll bite; isn't ALL brake fluid
>synthetic? Is this maybe just a marketing gimmick? Or are we maybe talking
>some form of silicone, non-moisture-absorbing, non-paint-removing,
>don't-plan-on-using-it-if-you're-planing-on-really-driving-it kind of
>stuff? What's the DOT rating on this stuff; DOT 4 or 5? I'm just about out
>of the last of the Castol LMA, so I'm a little interested myself.
>
>Bob
>
>Robert L. Palmer
>Dept. of AMES, Univ. of Calif., San Diego
>(email redacted)
>(email redacted)
>