Thread: I give up, after many, many years!
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Old May 20th 08, 09:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
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Default I give up, after many, many years!
On Tue, 20 May 2008 10:04:10 -0700 (PDT),
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Good grief. The compass has a diaphragm to take care of
expansion and contraction, and its fluid is just a solvent that has a
low freeze point. Even plain old gasoline has a low freeze point.

I've heard A&P's reference kerosene.