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- From: andersen@me.udel.edu (Stephen Andersen)
- Subject: Re: Pressurize Oil Before Starting ?
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- Organization: Department of Mechanical Engineering/University of Delaware
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:57:47 GMT
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- In article <2840016@iftccu.boeing.com> bressler@iftccu.boeing.com (Rick Bressler) writes:
- >Well, I've got 4 cars, a couple of which are more or less 'show' cars.
- >They quite often will sit for several weeks at a time, and only my
- >every day driver gets any real miles. Now, if you want to believe
- >the Slick 50 adds, :-) after a period of time most of the oil film
- >is off of the moving parts. (Actually, I think this is around two
- >weeks, and is the only part of the Slick-50 advertising that I
- >personally believe.) In this case a pre-oiler makes good sense. I have
- >many 1000's of dollars in those motors...
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- Dunno about Slick 50 and other products helping this, as I
- wouldn't use them for other reasons, however there is a way
- to get/maintain an oil film on parts that are not in motion...
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- The newer synthetic oil formulations which are Ester-based
- (Mobil 1, Amsoil, Redline) will do just that. The esters
- will maintain a film for an indefinite period without any dynamic
- motion. Regular dinosaur oils will eventually lose their film
- under static conditions. Granted, the few microns of film that
- will be left by the synthetics may be small, however typically
- the surface asperities that the oil is keeping out of contact
- are likewise very small...
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- Steve
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