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From: bellas@ttidcb.UUCP (Pete Bellas)
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: mixing antifreeze
Message-ID: <551@ttidcb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 12:29:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 19 12:29:49 1985
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Reply-To: bellas@ttidcb.UUCP (Pete Bellas)
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In article <2903@vax4.fluke.UUCP> marauder@fluke.UUCP (Bill Landsborough) writes:
>In article <313@mhuxl.UUCP> smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning) writes:
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>>From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxl!smh
>>
>>> Does anyone know if it's OK to mix different brands of antifreeze?
>>
>>I recently used a case each of Prestone, Dow, and Texaco.  A week later
>>I dumped the last few drops from each container into one container.
>>Now I have about a pint of this mixture.  It has grease like stuff
>>floating on top and the various colors (red, green, and blue) did
>>not mix, they just form sort of a muddy streaked color.  
>
>I don't think it will hurt anything to mix them.  And probably the grease
>stuff that you refer to is probably engine oil which indicates a leaky
>head gasket.  That should concern you much more.....
>
>Bill Landsborough

Excuse me if I'm wrong, but it seems to say that he mixed them from their
original caontainers into a second container, they were never placed in an
engine (hence the substance was not engine oil from a blown head gasket).

If there is a compatibility problem I would like to know, as I usually use
several different kinds of antifreeze (which ever is available at the time).

			-Pete-