<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3086" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent"> <DIV>Then you may be right that there is some solid crap-out from the Protek, but I've never noted it, and I've been working from the same quart bottle for over a year. I would recommend that you get in touch with Don Mannino, who, last time he was here at the School, mentioned that he had been doing some experiments with the stuff. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>"If you want to know the truth, stop having opinions" (Chinese fortune cookie)</STRONG></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 05/20/07 09:02:21 Central Daylight Time, tvaktvak@sbcglobal.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> <DIV> <STYLE type=text/css> .aolmailheader {font-size:8pt; color:black; font-family:Arial} a.aolmailheader:link {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal} a.aolmailheader:visited {color:magenta; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal} a.aolmailheader:active {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal} a.aolmailheader:hover {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal} </STYLE> <DIV>Paul, thanks for your response.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'll try washing it out next time, but I hate to just toss a full hypo-oiler bottle of Protek.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So basically you're saying that the Protek is dissolving the plastic in the bottle?  Or that the bottle comes with these plastic shavings inside.  <BR><BR>This is the 4th or 5th fillup of this bottle, and I never noticed the flakes before.  I assumed it came from the Protek since the bottle was the same.  Curious...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tom<BR><BR><B><I>PAULREVENKOJONES <paulrevenkojones@aol.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid">I have always washed out the hypo-oilers with soap and water after I experienced the same thing several years ago. The Protek is no at fault. What I think you're seeing are bits of plastic from the molding of the bottle. </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>They're small, and perhaps a bit whiter in color than the liquid.  I call them "flakes" because they're shaped like little corn flakes; flat and irregularly shaped.  They don't seem stiff, but flexible and diaphanous. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have to say that the liquid in the new bottle of Protek (the old one is almost empty) is clearer in color than from the old bottle.  The Protek in the old bottle is yellower. </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>This also is my experience, and have found no alteration in its effect.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Paul</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It still works, though.  I've used it recently with the usual great results.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Anybody ever see something like this?<BR><BR>Tom Sivak</DIV> <DIV>Chicago</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>