As always: get your oil to operating temp without added stress on the engine. The chart below provides several key laboratory tests on oil viscosity and was part of our decision to use 15W50. This data is readily available online, however, BMW does not publish oil specifications. We ...
My girlfriend showed me a chart this morning showing vegetable oil prices for the year, and they are all up sharply this year. Soybean oil used to be about 23 cents/pound - now it is closer to 43 cents/pound. The stuff she showed me didn't try and explain why (my girlfriend works...
What we do have to do, if we can, is to avoid the hard crash and burn scenario, from which there might be no recovery at all, or a recovery that takes centuries. It borders on the ridiculous to assume that eight or ten billion of us will achieve a modern western standard of ...
If this Hyperloop concept works out, which I am still skeptical, it will be a make a trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco take only about half an hour and cost about US $20, and it will use solar power and not burn any petroleum. This is an incredible claim, but some how he ...
None of the cars really use oil and the chart really makes using a thinner oil the logical choice. I have heard that cars rated for the 0W have consumption issues and they have been told to switch to 5W, but that is a different story. Once I burn through the stuff in the garage ...
To know which steels can be used with slower oil to minimize warping/cracking I have the following chart that is from my bookKnife Engineering. It is an approximate ranking based on hardenability. The steels at the top are expected to have the lowest hardenability and the bottom has a few ...
AMSOIL Motorcycle Oil Drops Engine Temp for Harley V-Rod Bon Hills, Tampa Bay, Florida, is completely satisfied with AMSOIL products. "Without a doubt, you have the greatest lubricants going," said Hills. The 64-year-old has been riding motorcycles since he was a youngster on the family fa...
The cumulative coal discovery models in Gtoe are shown in the chart below for the low, medium and high URR cases. In each case about 75% of coal discovery was prior to 1940. Coal resources have been developed very slowly, especially since the discovery of oil and natural gas. As a ...
Paraffin wax is commonly used for candle making due to its excellent burn quality. 1 Oil A viscous liquid derived from petroleum, especially for use as a fuel or lubricant. 1 Wax Waxes are a diverse class of organic compounds that are lipophilic, malleable solids near ambient temperatures. The...
Temp (°F.) 779 834 Pressure 268 269 (psig) WHSV (1/H) 3 3 H2/HC 2 2 Toluene 29.8 29.5 Conc. (%) C5-- 1.2 1.3 Benzene 13.8 14.5 Ethylbenzene 0.4 0.4 Para-xylene 12.0 11.9 Total xylenes 14.1 12.7 Para-selec- 87.0 94.0