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Originally Posted by spcemn_spiff
Where is our in-house chemical engineer when we need him, wired 24/7, are you around sir?
Would you care to comment on viscosity for same weight different brand oils, the buzzwords for additives that oil makers use to make people buy their oil.
If there are any independant tests done based on lubrication theories, let it come. Every other description is not worth looking into, its usually a marketing gimmick.
Would you care to comment on viscosity for same weight different brand oils, the buzzwords for additives that oil makers use to make people buy their oil.
If there are any independant tests done based on lubrication theories, let it come. Every other description is not worth looking into, its usually a marketing gimmick.
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Originally Posted by streetracer
I'm not an engineer but I do have a BS in chemistry. Synerlec by name makes no reference to any compounds. This means that looking at the name you cannot tell the family it belongs to or its functional groups in the molecule. Chemically speaking, it certainly makes sense that one motor oil is better than another by not allowing the molecules to be spread during friction. This can be performed by manipulating ionic or covalent bonds in the molecules and/or playing with other types of forces like hydrogen bridges or Van Der Waals bonds.
If using these additives is a common knowledge in oil/lubrication industry and achieves far superior performance will just make the standards set by SAE ineffective, which I dont think is the case. So I feel these so called Superior Oils that dont provide any information about their actual testing or performance characterized by Tribologists is almost a marketing gimmick, all they resort to is using flowerly language to attract unsuspecting buyers.
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