I think it is 100 degrees C  (212 F)

Brent Christensen
'89 Syncro Westy "Klaus"
'91 Taurus SHO (For Sale)
'95 Cherokee Sport

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From: Davidson <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: Re : How VC's work

> Locks up at 100 degrees???? !!!!!!
> So that means if you live in Arizona you VC is locked up all summer??????
> Is there any evidence that these things go bad sooner in hot climates?
> Bill
> 90 Westy Syncro
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Carolsfeld <wolfgang@ISLAND.NET>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 2:01 AM
> Subject: Re : How VC's work
>
>
> >I think the last couple of posts on how VC's work are each only partly
> >correct.
> >From what I read in a 1986 promo VW publication about Syncro, and maybe
> >your owners manual, heat is the trigger that causes the patented silicon
to
> >undergo a dramatic phase change at 100 degrees, like Bob says, it is
> >agitated AND gets hot due to shearing by the perforated plates, and at
100
> >the thin liquid becomes  hard ( no this isn't science fiction), voila the
> >VC locks up till it cools. The phase change is fast, part of a second or
> >so. The internal plates don't actually contact adjacent plates, and with
no
> >metal to metal wear you get that long service life for these units.
> >
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> >On 4/21/99, at 5:33 PM, Robert A. Alexander wrote:
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> >>Stuart - It was my understanding that heat has nothing to do with it.  I
> >>read that this strange, patented, material was much like my EX, agitate
> >>it and it becomes hard!
> >>
> >>BOB
> >
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> >Wolfgang  Carolsfeld
> >wolfgang@island.net
> >