Fork smell

Seeing as it's quiet - here's a fairly on topic question.

While the engine is out of my RD I've taken the opportunity to pull the
front forks off and fit the new springs I got last year. Amazingly the
forks still had air pressure, but on removing the spring and tipping out
the oil I got a really nasty gas smell, so bad that Laura started
flapping about a gas leak, it did smell very much like a gas leak. Any
idea what would cause this smell? The oil didn't look too contaminated,
apart from being obviously past its best.

Hopefully mostly back together this weekend, and there'll then be space
in the garage for the B12 I'm hankering after.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "mike. buckley"

That's normal. A vile creamy-green colour is also normal. Istr that
water contamination causes both - the asparagus soup appearance is
emulsification and the smell is bacterial action.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

That's what made me wonder, the oil still looked like oil, but the gas
that came out stank.

 

The smell in natural gas is an added chemical. Natural gas itself is
odourless. It would seem that the breaking down oil produced some of
the same chemical, wish I could remember what it is. It would not take
much as gas has parts per thousand or million of the chemical.

Ken Young

Maternity is a matter of fact
Paternity is a matter of opinion

 

struggled to ejaculate:

Mercaptan:
http://www.columbiagaspamd.com/community_outreach/mercaptan.htm

I used to work in South Shields, where a company called Velva Liquids
stored mercaptan. It was brought in to the port by ship, then
transferred by hose to a storage tank. I assume that only a drop or
two escaped each time, but you could always tell when a delivery had
been made - the whole town stunk of rotten eggs, fading to
school-dinner-hall rotting cabbage after a few hours.

Seriously evil stuff, mercaptan.

 

Eww, reminds me of when I changed the fork oil on the CBX550. I had
the bike on the centrestand, I didn't think anything of it as I slowly
started to unscrew the bolt on the bottom of the fork leg.

Until the compression forced the bolt out at speed, followed of course
by the fork oil, all over me.

And boy, did it stink..

Strangely enough, I've not made the same mistake twice.


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Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

The irony is that natural gas is non-toxic, you just pop your clogs of
anoxia or being blown up, whereas mercaptan is toxic.