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Trailer troubles....

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:40:07 -0400, "Reginald P Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:36:53 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

Got me, but that International L-110 I restored master cylinder was
clean (cast iron), but all the lines from it were toast.

Maybe it's the lines and not the cyliinder.

Steel is highly susceptable to rust, while cast iron is very corrosion
resistant.

Casady

I have always had to make sure my cast iron skillets were well seasoned
or they would rust.

And your skillets developed how many holes? There are cast iron water
pipes that have been in use for hundreds of years. I have owned steel
knives that could corrode visibly in fifteen minutes, just cut an
apple and watch white steel blacken. I have never heard of a cast iron
car part failing from corrosion. Steel bodies, and when they had them,
frames, can rust to the point of uselessness. Frame rusted out on my
fathers 67 Ford wagon, and he had to scrap it, even though the body
and interior were still good.

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On Jun 22, 12:52*pm, thunder wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:05:57 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:

I would have to agree with you actually. My tractors use standard brake
fluid and I've never had a water problem - well, the one time the Super
A ended up in the irrigation pond at the orchard, but that wasn't my
fault. *:)

;-) Just a note of caution, I'm known more than one person who has had a
tractor roll over on them. *One of them, is no longer with us because of
the event. *Those things are more dangerous than it would appear.

Yep, I lost two really good customers in roll-overs.

Trailer troubles....

On Jun 22, 2:33*pm, Loogypicker wrote:
On Jun 22, 3:21*pm, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:52:22 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:05:57 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:

I would have to agree with you actually. My tractors use standard brake
fluid and I've never had a water problem - well, the one time the Super
A ended up in the irrigation pond at the orchard, but that wasn't my
fault. *:)

;-) Just a note of caution, I'm known more than one person who has had a
tractor roll over on them. *One of them, is no longer with us because of
the event. *Those things are more dangerous than it would appear.

Been there, done that - got the t-shirt.

My favorite was pulling a hay wagon with about 300 bales on it with
the MTA I restored.

Up a hill.

Doing a wheelie for the first couple of hundred feet. *:)

Growing up around a farm, and all of us being gear heads, I've got
some stories! Just as a reference point, I'd taken a load of hay up to
another farmer with a Ford 8n. There's a place in the road where it's
downhill. Let the hay wagon at the farm, so I decided that'd be a
great place to kick that thing into neutral. A Ford 8n doesn't handle
worth a damned at 30 or so mph!!! Those rear tires were just freakin'
howling because it was swaying side to side so much that I used the
whole 2 lane county road!

Been there too. only I was pulling a hay wagon, or it was pushing me
and swaying hard. about lost the load which would have been right on
top of me.

Not good!

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On Jun 22, 3:43*pm, Gene Kearns
wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:32:17 -0700 (PDT), Tim penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Jun 22, 5:15*am, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
| On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:15:06 -0700 (PDT), Tim | wrote:

|
|
|
| that looks like a serious dose of the clap, you got *there Tom. Too
| much exposure to salt in a tight spot.
|
| Don't think so - if that were the case, the entire system would be
| compromised like this and it's pretty clean up the tube to the brake
| actuator - just a dirt.
|
| What I think happened is that the solenoid let go - that's basically
| brake fluid corrosion. This has been leaking for sometime - that's
| what I'm thinking. *I have had to add brake fluid over the years, but
| it's a pretty open system so evaporation I figured - apparently not.
|
| No indication it was leaking either until it let go.
|
| On my trailer (23' Marquis) it's all exposed and so it has less means
| of build up.
|
| The pic of the brake line looks evil too. and it might be a lot of fun
| trying to bleed the brakes with them baptized in brine as well.
|
| I've seen that on an old Escort I had that had a brake line release.
| Corrosive stuff brake fluid.
|
|Well, I'm not one to dispute the Wizard, but I've sen many an old car
|and/or truck that had a gazillion miles and years on them and no rust
|on the cast iron brake reservoir.
|
|I wonder what the difference is? something abotu the heat under the
|engine compartment causing something not to rust and corroede?

Brake fluid attracts water like crazy. The lower in the system, the
more likely the water. *Wouldn't hurt to get a tube of these:

http://www.gwrauto.com/stripdip.htm

--
Agent 5.00 Build 1171

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

Homepagehttp://pamandgene.tranquilrefuge.net/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Good idea, Gene.

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"Tim" wrote in message
...

Did it to you again. Can't believe it. The two times you called I had a
bunch of activity going on.
Today it was Verizon. I had my cell phone in one ear, listening to the
tech help guy and trying to answer your call at the same time.

Email always works. rerik at comcast dot net

Eisboch

Trailer troubles....

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:14:26 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 11:10Â*am, Vic Smith
wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:05:57 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock

wrote:

You're right Vic - I remember that story but I can't remember who
wrote it or what it was about.

Think it was thishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Black_Bag

--Vic

I don't know about little black bag, but the first song I really was
able to play on bass guitar when I was 15 was "Little Green Bag" by
the George Baker Select. it's kinda mild rockish with a Lawrence Welk
twist to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L1hD5OlPtw

Sounds like a drug song to me, but since it's you it's probably not.
I'm not too musically inclined except for some Strauss and Roy
Orbison. Well, I was on a Dionne Warwick youtube kick yesterday.
And I watch American Idol too.
Oh hell, I just don't like that hard/acid rock stuff.
Gives me a headache.
And those car boom boxes..boom..boom..boom.
They get me mad.
Probably some primal nonsense I have no control over.

--Vic

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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:08:29 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:55:37 -0500, Vic Smith penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|Sounds like a drug song to me, but since it's you ......

In 1969, what *wasn't* a drug song?

Okie from Muskogee of course.
Merle Haggard - my second favorite voice.

--Vic

Trailer troubles....

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:14:26 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 11:10*am, Vic Smith
wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:05:57 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock

wrote:

You're right Vic - I remember that story but I can't remember who
wrote it or what it was about.

Think it was thishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Black_Bag

--Vic

I don't know about little black bag, but the first song I really was
able to play on bass guitar when I was 15 was "Little Green Bag" by
the George Baker Select. it's kinda mild rockish with a Lawrence Welk
twist to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L1hD5OlPtw

Well, it's not exactly weird...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0UT2MpdWnc

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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:33:06 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:08:29 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:55:37 -0500, Vic Smith penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|Sounds like a drug song to me, but since it's you ......

In 1969, what *wasn't* a drug song?

Okie from Muskogee of course.
Merle Haggard - my second favorite voice.

Two of my favorites rolled up in one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxzJAF1BxP4