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Re: Discolored washer bottle

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Subject: Re: Discolored washer bottle
From: "Jane Burdekin" <burdekij@bvsd.k12.co.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:56:59 -0700
VB will sell you a new one for around $15 if you would rather do that. 
Just a thought.  Mine got lost in the rebuild so that's what I had to do.  
Jane '67 GT6

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> From: Thomas J Howard <thoward@sdcoe.k12.ca.us>
> To: Bollen <bollen@ibm.net>
> Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Discolored washer bottle
> Date: Monday, November 10, 1997 1:26 AM
> 
> At 04:34 PM 11/9/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >I have the original Lucas washer bottle which has become very discolored
> >with age. I tried soaking overnight in bleach and Tide with zero effect.
> >Any lister found a solution to this problem? Thanks, Stu
> >-
> >( Screwing up a perfectly running TR6 ).
> >
> 
> I do not believe there is a "solution."     The plastic polymere chain
> changes over time, with heat and light.  This can cause the color change.
>  This is also responsible for the loss of flexibility.
> 
> Sorry.
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Tom Howard
> Lakeside Union School District
> ('72 Triumph GT6, and a good bit of USA iron)

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