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Ester is a good cleaner so over time it cleans your oil control rings passages and that reduces your oil consumption.

Not to be a downer but Schaeffer known for 50 plus sales reps certified as "Lubrication specialists" for only one formulator that is about to retire... I had not seen them running their merit forward. Actually right now even Amsoil abandoned being the best - not a single comparative study...

Here is an article I found on an official NASA website. https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2020/cg_4.html

In the US it will depend on where are you buying it. Plenty of fake parts on eBay and Amazon. I even had the luck of getting a counterfeit spark plug from a dealer. With an oil here is less of an issue. If you ask to put synthetic oil in an oil change shop that is not guaranteed that you will...

What exactly is you magic potion, sir? :-) I like your reasoning ....let me expand of your thinking. If I look not just on units on physical meaning of represented numbers: Ratio of viscosities at HTHSV is high temperature to cold cranking viscosities so it would be relevant to a usable range...

jojoba oil have a very long chain waxes and after esterification had been used by some manufacturers as substitute of sperm whale wax derivatives.

Digireg, what aspect of biotribology are you working on? seems like you are the only biotrib specialist here. I am curios about novel coatings in hip implants

Will you be talking to the guy again? ask how often he changes his oil and at what age/hours honda started to use oil.

Fantastic video! Engine grows 6 inches during flight!

This one is a still a powerful machine: Best upgrades: 1. SSD by far. 2. E5345 or better 4 core CPUs 3. Max out memory it is rather cheap on eBay.

Amsoil is cheaper than 320 Castrol and Mobil 1 at distributor prices.

An easy solution is to keep it unplugged overnight at the place where you installing it to let lubricant go into crankcase slowly after being moved in the system during transport. Some old refrigerators used to fail due to hydraulic shock from oil in wrong parts of the compressor.