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Originally Posted by Beater
rodding out cleaning the tubes at the rad shop pushing rods through the tubes cant do that on honeycomb
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IIRC, the Honeycomb is made up of "strips" which are soldered together to make full tubes and then formed in a press to the zig-zag shape of the honeycomb.
A rod will not pass from one end to the other because of the zig-zag, and the strip construction is prone to leak either in freezing - or simply "solder corrosion" of the joint which all 60-40 solders are prone to.
I have had my honeycomb boiled out, created a few leaks in doing so, repaired the leaks, only to find a few more until it got set aside.
Everything has a life - the honeycomb deserved a rest. I will give it credit though - even before boiling, the car never boiled over.
Joe K