Originally Posted By: chevrofreak
Yes, lanolin is very thick at lower (say, below 60F) temperatures.
This UOA is still 100% useless for determining what's in Auto RX. UOA's do not show what the base oil is, and since Auto RX only has 3 ingredients, all of them esters, they aren't going to show up.
The trace metals could be from a lot of things, from the manufacturing process to Blackstone's testing equipment not being calibrated right. Go look at other VOA's and you'll see pretty similar numbers from virgin oil.
Exactly, I couldn't figure out the purpose of this test was, other than seeing if there were any contaminants, which I have no idea why there would be suspected to be any, and so there is confirmation of that, woo-hoo. Any other information in a spectro-analysis of this stuff is a of minimum curiosity and I see no benefit of in the application use that I would possibly care about.