[Healeys] Silicone DOT5 brakefluid for the 100

[Eric (Rick) Wilkins]

Silicone is known to be more compressible than DOT 4. That's one of  
the reasons that it is not used or recommended in ABS systems.

The fact that it doesn't absorb moisture is bad because instead of  
suspending moisture, it can cause water to "settle" in brake parts  
leading to water pockets and/or corrosion from same.

Wilko

On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Tom Felts wrote:

> less water absorption is a negative???
>
> And----my pedals are in no way spongy.  Sorry to defend DOT 5 so  
> strongly, but seems everything I hear bad about it has not happened  
> to me in a very long time of silicone use.
>
>
> ---- Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:
>
> =============
> Although DOT5 has its advantages in:
>
> -not stripping paint like DOT3/4 (I do not know if this also true for
> DOT5.1)
> -less detoriation being not or less hygroscopic
> -higher dry and wet boiling point
> -long life