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To: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <dougnad@bellatlantic.net>,
Subject: Re: yay!
From: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 08:11:47 -0400
At 11:51 PM 07/06/00 -0400, Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou wrote:
>Unfortunately, it still leaked almost as much afterwards.
>I think moisture settles down at the bottom of the
>dashpot and corrodes the place
>where the O-ring seats.


Maybe there were pieces of the old o ring still in there?  I spent lotsa 
time cleaning that surface and was rewarded by a successful repair.


>I just kept filling it up every few days.  Get an
>old-fashioned pump-style oil can to make it easier.


I use an old eyedropper (actually from a cat-vitamin jar).  Small, fits in 
the tool kit, doesn't leak.

Atwell Haines
'79 Spitfire
Succasunna NJ USA



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