Post by silverdragon on Oct 1, 2015 7:55:21 GMT
There is a myth that if you spill Brake and Clutch fluid on your car it will degenerate Rubber or Latex.
How true?..
For sake of somewhere to start, there was a Miff/legend/tall tale of some motorist who fell out with a neighbour, so put a plastic cup of Brake/clutch upside down with no lid on the roof of their car.
When they came out, of course, they saw the cup, and knocked it off.... thus brake/clutch spread out from the roof downwards.
They didnt wash it off immediately. NOT for public publication, [outside this board] this is a do not try this at home thing, its a known irritant and if it splashes on you, your going to itch at the least?.
We cant use this, so, I suggest a container of brake/clutch was rested on the roof whilst they "Fixed" the car....
Forgot it was there and drove off...
According to urban legend, it starts immediately on contact to eat away paint rubber latex silicone rubber or any other "soft" parts of the car.... it seeps into door seals, window seals, and if it gets in the engine bay, there is a whole feast of rubber hoses that are quite important in there.
Now according to legend it took about a week, for things to start to go wrong, paint peeled, windscreens started to leak, door seals started to come away....
If they had immediately washed it in a hot soap wash, they could have prevented that. But stupid knows no boundaries, so, the car disintegrated around them.
So how accurate is this "Tall tale"....
And I admit I first heard it in a Bar I was working in, so it may have been just a tall tale to begin with, but its sort of agreed that a brake.clutch fluid spill is "Bad news".
Strange, no one ever mentions tyre trouble with this one?...
You would have thought that tyre degradation would be a major worry.
Or is tyre rubber "Different"... I think not?...
I suggest a liberal spraying of brake/clutch over various parts that may be affected in a controlled environment and leave to soak against a control of NOT sprayed parts to see which gives up first....
And a container of dye on a car roof to illustrate how far it may spread.
How true?..
For sake of somewhere to start, there was a Miff/legend/tall tale of some motorist who fell out with a neighbour, so put a plastic cup of Brake/clutch upside down with no lid on the roof of their car.
When they came out, of course, they saw the cup, and knocked it off.... thus brake/clutch spread out from the roof downwards.
They didnt wash it off immediately. NOT for public publication, [outside this board] this is a do not try this at home thing, its a known irritant and if it splashes on you, your going to itch at the least?.
We cant use this, so, I suggest a container of brake/clutch was rested on the roof whilst they "Fixed" the car....
Forgot it was there and drove off...
According to urban legend, it starts immediately on contact to eat away paint rubber latex silicone rubber or any other "soft" parts of the car.... it seeps into door seals, window seals, and if it gets in the engine bay, there is a whole feast of rubber hoses that are quite important in there.
Now according to legend it took about a week, for things to start to go wrong, paint peeled, windscreens started to leak, door seals started to come away....
If they had immediately washed it in a hot soap wash, they could have prevented that. But stupid knows no boundaries, so, the car disintegrated around them.
So how accurate is this "Tall tale"....
And I admit I first heard it in a Bar I was working in, so it may have been just a tall tale to begin with, but its sort of agreed that a brake.clutch fluid spill is "Bad news".
Strange, no one ever mentions tyre trouble with this one?...
You would have thought that tyre degradation would be a major worry.
Or is tyre rubber "Different"... I think not?...
I suggest a liberal spraying of brake/clutch over various parts that may be affected in a controlled environment and leave to soak against a control of NOT sprayed parts to see which gives up first....
And a container of dye on a car roof to illustrate how far it may spread.
