-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Rauchfuss - PCD <brauchfu@pcocd2.intel.com>
Date: Friday, April 06, 2001 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: Brake on the stick and aligning the boat
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: JLW <jeffw@telebyte.net>
>>
>>
>> >About the only downside I am aware of associated with using silicone
fluid
>> is
>> >that it compresses slightly more than 'the awful red stuff'.
>>
>> I thought fluids were supposed to be incompressible?
>>
>> Duncan McFadyean
>
>All fluids (and all solids, for that matter) will compress to some extent.
>In moderately high pressure applications like brake lines the
compressibility
>becomes important, since it can lead to the brakes feeling "spongy".
>
I think most of the sponginess comes principally from the elasticity of the
pipes themselves, especially plain nylon tubes as on the Europa. Replacement
of hoses on cars with stainless braided stuff usually makes an enormous
difference to hardness of the pedal.
Duncan McFadyean
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