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Date:         Sat, 15 May 2010 15:33:28 EDT
Reply-To:     VWBrain@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Dearing <VWBrain@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: What to soak radiator in to dissolve slime
Comments: To: albell@SHAW.CA
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In a message dated 5/15/2010 1:25:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, albell@SHAW.CA writes:

as I said, i don't want to argue, just stating the facts so you know.

solutions of lye/draino,/NaOH will attack aluminium. its just a fact. if you are comfortable with that then ok.

alistair

hello Alistair No Problem, I know very well what some of them do. we tested a couple of different brands of this stuff before using it, Some drain cleaner stuff mixed with aluminium foil in a sealed liter coke bottle had a very explosive effect. Some didn't ?? The Draino brand didn't., mind you we didn't have a sealed system on the heater core as we left it open and was mixed with warm water. later mark d.


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