Dexron/Mercon is vegetable oil. It probably has some other additives in it,
but it is basically vegetable oil based, I beleive.
Dick Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: kenyon wills <imperialist60@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 11:24 AM
Subject: IML: veggie oil in hydraulic systems
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> -Kenyon
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> --- Dick Bachman <hamcnab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > somewhere back in the cob-webs of my mind,I seem to
> > remember someone
> > using vegatable ,cooking oil, instead of hydralic fluid,
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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>
> >
> > 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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