Originally Posted By: MolaKule
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Some of the uses canola has seen (military service -- and not for cooking -- and as a heavy machinery lube) are much more demanding than the inside of your typical engine. These are constant-use, minimal-maintenance scenarios, which seems to coincide with my experience; this oil seemed like it was gonna last dang near forever until I stopped using it for a while.
Maybe so, but I am pretty sure these are additized oils with special anti-oxidant packages, not virgin Canola oils.
It will be interesting to see your baseline VOA, UOA's, and observation on the visual properties of this mix.
I suspect what you are now seeing is a polymerization of the Canola oil mix.
The only references I find to the military using canola was to lube steam engines.
Castor oil is an excellent lubricant for internal combustion engines, the best that could found up until the '70s. It could keep the 400 gross hp/L Alfa Romeo F1 engine alive in 1951. The downside to the use in internal combustion engines was that it was a one shot deal. Everyone using castor had to drain the oil hot at the end of each race as the oil would gel when it returned to ambient temperatures.
Ed
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Some of the uses canola has seen (military service -- and not for cooking -- and as a heavy machinery lube) are much more demanding than the inside of your typical engine. These are constant-use, minimal-maintenance scenarios, which seems to coincide with my experience; this oil seemed like it was gonna last dang near forever until I stopped using it for a while.
Maybe so, but I am pretty sure these are additized oils with special anti-oxidant packages, not virgin Canola oils.
It will be interesting to see your baseline VOA, UOA's, and observation on the visual properties of this mix.
I suspect what you are now seeing is a polymerization of the Canola oil mix.
The only references I find to the military using canola was to lube steam engines.
Castor oil is an excellent lubricant for internal combustion engines, the best that could found up until the '70s. It could keep the 400 gross hp/L Alfa Romeo F1 engine alive in 1951. The downside to the use in internal combustion engines was that it was a one shot deal. Everyone using castor had to drain the oil hot at the end of each race as the oil would gel when it returned to ambient temperatures.
Ed