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On 1 Nov 98, at 9:03, Steven Ayres wrote: > > JimA=> one only gets the full benefit out of the Silicone DoT-5 brake > => fluid if the old fluid is removed as completely as possible. > > The ability to mix them might even be useful. If DoT-4 is a little > more compressible, it seems on the surface that you could apply a > certain proportion of it for a degree of stiffness somewhere between the > two. Or are they more or less functionally the same? I think they are pretty much the same, at least to the limits of our perception. I don't think there is any reason to mix; the silicone is pretty expensive, and it would be rather pointless to put it in there and still have a bunch of the old stuff causing rust. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/