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Post by pacestick »

Has any one had any problem with foam on there vehicles corroding pipes and that sort of thing?
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pacestick wrote:Has any one had any problem with foam on there vehicles corroding pipes and that sort of thing?
Of course it will. This is why you should always flush all of the foam out of the appliance when you're finished.
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Foam is very corrosive, it does not help that they don't treat the ally lines. Its a world wide problem, yet no one wants to fix the problem, yet its so simple.
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Post by Fire Chief »

We deleted foam off our fire utes at barbagallo raceway for this reason...We now use coldfire as its not corrosive and its a hell of a lot cheaper
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