Lowell Howe got hassled by the environment people about a
hydraulic car lift (the kind that looks like a T and goes
into the ground) that he had put in on his property.
He used vegetable oil and they left him alone. He said
that he wiped his finger on the shaft and licked it in
front of them out of spite to prove a point.
If veggie oil will lift an Imperial where hydraulic fluid
once did, it might go well elsewhere, but I don't have
anything to contribute about its lubriaction properties or
affect on seals, etc.
-Kenyon
--- Dick Bachman <hamcnab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> somewhere back in the cob-webs of my mind,I seem to
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> convertible lift system ????????
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> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822
> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 05:54:54 -0700 (PDT)
> From: KerryPinkerton <pinkertonk@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: IML: Fire possibility from 6V solenoid??
> To: IML <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Ok, all you EE types, I have a serious question.
> Steve Charette found a 6V solenoid in the
> McMaster-Carr catalog. Thanks Steve, I missed it.
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> http://www.mcmaster.com/
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> Go to item # 4916K11
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> This is a Pnuematic valve with Buna-N seals. It is
> NOT designed for brake fluid. Here is the question.
> If this thing were to leak, is there any danger of
> fire from the solenoid energizing? I'd hate to burn
> the Crown down.... Is there a non flammable fluid
> that would subsitute?
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> I'd THINK that if it will hold air, it will hold
> fluid. This thing is only 24 bucks and I can build
> the cylinder for next to nothing so it could be a good
> solution for all of us with these hydralic windows
> lifts.
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> Your thoughts please.
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> Kerry
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