the Oily SideThe Silicon BugabooWhat are Insolubles?What is a Flash Point?Which Oil to Use? Most of us have only a vague understanding of viscosity. We tend to choose an oil... report either a low temp (100F or 40C) or a high temp (210F or 100C) and stick with either SUS or cSt. The standardized temperature reading allows us to compare apples to apples... apple is an apple, no matter what language you use to describe it. In the same respect, there are many ways to describe viscosity: SAE Engine, SUS (Seybolt Universal Seconds), cSt...

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!Tales from the Oily SideThe Silicon BugabooWhat are Insolubles?What is a Flash Point?Which Oil to Use? We receive many oil samples from clients who don't understand what is required... to run unusually long oil use intervals in their engines. The accumulation of wear metals, blow-by materials, and oil oxidation products in their oils is alarming. It has been our... experience that one cannot simply add oil of a particular brand or base stock and expect it will be useful for an extended period of time, lubricating, cleaning, and cooling...

the Oily SideThe Silicon BugabooWhat are Insolubles?What is a Flash Point?Which Oil to Use? By: Jim Stark We occasionally get questions about how oil analysis works. You send your... oil to us and you get a report back, but what happens in the meantime? Is it magic? Some sort of voodoo? What happens to the oil that allows us to determine what's in it? At... the heart of most oil analysis businesses is a spectrometer. It is the machine that allows us to quantify wear metals, additives, and contaminants in oils, making oil analysis a useful...