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According to Johnny [a well respected former member] when Sopus bought the Slick 50 name they changed the formula and the product wasn't bad. They took the Teflon out of it when they reformulated it.
 
I'd gift them out to those you don't care for, but if you don't want to be that bad, perhaps soak into some firewood saved for future SOS signaling.
Use a good API proper grade oil should be all that is needed.
 
SOPUS should have put Slick 50 out of its misery. What would one intend to accomplish by mixing the stuff with PYB or QSGB or FS? Or, if I had a garbage oil, how about buying a better oil instead of the additive?

It's a bit disingenuous in my view for an oil company that markets oils that they insist upon using on their own without additives, to sell an additive all their own.
 
Originally Posted By: demarpaint
According to Johnny [a well respected former member] when Sopus bought the Slick 50 name they changed the formula and the product wasn't bad. They took the Teflon out of it when they reformulated it.


Really? Isn't that interesting. I wonder what it became and what it consisted of
 
The original material was a Teflon suspension. As I recollect the particle size was such that it would clog good filters. And I don't believe it bonded very well. But to compensate for that it was quite expensive.

Nano particle Moly or Tungsten Disulphide would be a better choice.

The nano part is important.
 
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Originally Posted By: Clevy
Originally Posted By: demarpaint
According to Johnny [a well respected former member] when Sopus bought the Slick 50 name they changed the formula and the product wasn't bad. They took the Teflon out of it when they reformulated it.


Really? Isn't that interesting. I wonder what it became and what it consisted of


I have no idea, but John wrote about it, and IIRC he said it wasn't a bad product, and no longer contained Teflon. Someone who has the time could probably pull up the thread, with a ton of luck! LOL
 
Tri-flow is formulated with teflon particles in suspension. Anywhere Tri-flow is suitable should be okay to use Slick-50... e.g., door locks, bicycles.

It should be a good lube for anything that doesn't have a filter.
 
use it according to directions; i.e. please dilute in regular oil.

i'm a skeptic but have to admit that when i didn't know better i used it in a taurus ford 3.0 vulcan engine. The thing lasted almost forever and ran well; sold to a friend; car eventually broke an axle at very high mileage but engine was great.

i'd never buy a bottle again unless it was at a price like you scored it at. teflon turns into toxic pollutants at higher temps, such as those that can be seen in engines.
 
Originally Posted By: Donald
Originally Posted By: sasha
Just scored 4 bottles of slick 50 for a total of $0.27. Do not know what to do with this [censored]. cannot believe it used to $27.99 a bottle. My max and kia are due for an oil change. should i dump all 4 in to one of the cars and see what will happen?


Snake oil. Dispose of properly. Its PFTE (Teflon). Does not belong in an engine (and thats according to Dupont the manufacturer).

Use high quality synthetic oil and forget the snake oil.




Excuse me..

You Sir are incorrect and brainwashed by the Oil Industry which has an agenda to keep you in the dark with the technological advancements that have been developed with PTFE (and they are doing VERY well).

Catch up with the truth and at some point in time find the more current report from DuPont and their stand on the use of PTFE in an internal combustion engine. Don't think for a moment DuPont does not sell all the PTFE micro balloons materials they can produce (which now is available in several different grades BTW.)
Order a 50 Lb can and see how long and how much this family of chemicals cost..

Today these products have reached a position that has no connection with the material you mentioned.
Gun Oil, Hydraulic systems, HVAC, compressors and pumps, Turbine, Transmissions of all type, Electric motors, Drill Mud, the list is endless.

Do you recognize the Polymer/Ceramics Coatings Industry as being a joke too (give me a brake.)?

Next thing, you will be telling people that cryogenic processing is a laugh or that the slickest surface in the world is not a Teflon to Teflon surface ... wake up.. HELLO, chances are your eggs are cooked on the stuff!

I have been affiliated with this industry for close to 30 years and I'm tired of you and others failure to get your heads out of the mud.

It would be a BIG positive to research your opinions before you dump on something you have NO knowledge of past a 20+ year old report from a company that now generates a great deal of profit from PTFE.

Wake up guys and see the light. We all have the option to get in the game or let it pass us by.
I'd bet that if you were in the performance industry you would not be (so) short sighted.
I'm wonder who in the oil industry will come out with a PTFE additive package in their over the counter offerings.

I remember, not so many years ago that synthetic oils were dumped on continuously, and now??
Should you own a HONDA check out the skirts on your pistons.

Flame AWAY,
pc
 
Read This...

Slick 50 was subject to a class action lawsuit and at least another independent one.
DuPont refused to sell them PTFE so they used cheap clone PTFE that was rubbish. Not that PTFE particles have any place in an engine





Out of the frying pan …

One friction modifier whose efficacy is the center of much attention is polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE or TFE, for short, the generic name for DuPont Chemical's Teflon), of which there is a family of similar yet distinct formulations. PTFEs boast the lowest coefficient of friction of any known material. Back in 1980, DuPont told everybody that their studies showed PTFE offered "no significant benefits as an engine additive." This statement set off a storm of controversy that still has DuPont spokespeople walking on eggs. However, you will notice that none of the PTFE additive suppliers are allowed to use the word "Teflon" in their advertisements or product information.

For most people "Teflon" calls up the mental image of a no-stick frying pan. PTFE engine oil treatments work quite a bit differently than the PTFE in a cooking utensil, however. When coating a frying pan the metal is spotlessly cleaned in prepara tion for the application of PTFE. This situation is never going to happen spontaneously in a motor, no matter what you use as a pour-in cleaning agent.

As a motor oil additive, PTFE powder is held in suspension in a liquid carrier. Because most (if not all) PTFE resins are more or less tailored for their end use, and because few (if any) of the available powders have been tailored for use as an oil additive, PTFE oil additive marketers must select a PTFE that was compounded for some other purpose (such as frying pans, wire insulation, etc.).

Powders come in different particle sizes, with the smaller sizes typically costing a bit more than the larger sizes. For those who can not afford (or find a source for) the size they want, custom grinding houses can take a less expensive 400 to 500 micron powder, freeze it with liquid nitrogen, and grind it to whatever size is needed. Most of the PTFE oil additives use a particle anywhere from 20 microns down to the sub-micron size.

The very characteristic of PTFE that makes it so slippery also makes it tough to get it where the action is in the motor. For this reason, the carrier liquid is often an affinity agent that bonds the PTFE to the friction areas. These take the form of chemicals such as tricresyl phosphate (TCP) and triaryo phosphate (TAP). The use of the right affinity agent has the positive side effect of boosting lubrication performance whether or not there is any PTFE involved. Some of the affinity agents are so tenacious that it is jokingly said you could lubricate your engine with water if it had enough affinity agent in it. Because of this, some high-performance oils (such as Synthoil) are blended to include affinity agents from the start.

Listening to some of the claims made for PTFE you might get the impression that it is the solution to almost any problem you might have, real or imagined. So why aren't the Big Oil companies putting it in their products?

Most of the oil companies are reluctant to discuss what is or is not in their oil. Off the record, however, many oil company spokespeople express concern that as a solid, PTFE does not stay in suspension forever. If the oil sits for too long the PTFE will settle out; an unacceptable situation for the oil companies we talked to. And as difficult as it is to get the PTFE in suspension in ideal situations, once combustion by-products and oxidation begin to change the chemical composition of the oil, keeping the PTFE in suspension poses a whole new set of problems.

Most oil company engineers also cited additive package balance as a major consideration. Whether talking about pour point depressants or oxidation inhibitors, each felt that whatever the gain in friction reduction the price was too high in other areas of lubricant performance.

If a PTFE additive sounds good to you, the best bet is to contact the manufacturer for test data that can be correlated against other known good lubricants. The Sequence IIID, Sequence VD, and L-38 tests previously mentioned, for example, are industry-wide standards that readily allow comparison against traditional lubricants. The manufacturer that can back up its claims with test results is a lot more convincing than the one with beautiful sales brochures filled with unsubstantiated claims.




Slick 50 and other engine oil additives supposedly reduce engine wear and increase fuel efficiency.

You may have heard the commercial or seen the ad:

Multiple tests by independent laboratories have shown that when properly applied to an automotive engine, Slick 50 Engine Formula reduces wear on engine parts. Test results have shown that Slick 50 treated engines sustained 50 percent less wear than test engines run with premium motor oil alone.

There are about 50 other products on the market which make similar claims, many of them being just duplicate products under different names from the same company. The price for a pint or quart of these engine oil additives runs from a few dollars to more than $20. Do these products do any good? Not much. Do they do any harm. Sometimes.

What's in these miracle lubricants, anyway? If they're so wonderful, why don't car manufacturers recommend their usage? Why don't oil companies get into the additive business? Where are these studies mentioned by Petrolon (Slick 50)? Probably in the same file cabinet as the tobacco company studies proving the health benefits of smoking.

The basic ingredient is the same in most of these additives: 50 weight engine oil with standard additives. The magic ingredient in Slick 50, Liquid Ring, Matrix, QM1 and T-Plus from K-Mart is Polytetrafluoroethylene. Don't try to pronounce it: call it PTFE. But don't call it Teflon, which is what it is, because that is a registered trademark. Dupont, who invented Teflon, claims that "Teflon is not useful as an ingredient in oil additives or oils used for internal combustion engines." But what do they know? They haven't seen the secret studies done by Petrolon (Slick 50).

PTFE is a solid which is added to engine oil and coats the moving parts of the engine.

However, such solids seem even more inclined to coat non-moving parts, like oil passages and filters. After all, if it can build up under the pressures and friction exerted on a cylinder wall, then it stands to reason it should build up even better in places with low pressures and virtually no friction.

This conclusion seems to be borne out by tests on oil additives containing PTFE conducted by the NASA Lewis Research Center, which said in their report, "In the types of bearing surface contact we have looked at, we have seen no benefit. In some cases we have seen detrimental effect. The solids in the oil tend to accumulate at inlets and act as a dam, which simply blocks the oil from entering. Instead of helping, it is actually depriving parts of lubricant" (Rau).

In defense of Slick 50, tests done on a Chevy 6 cylinder engine by the University of Utah Engineering Experiment Station found that after treatment with the PTFE additive the test engine's friction was reduced by 13.1 percent, the output horsepower increased from 5.3 percent to 8.1 percent, and fuel economy improved as well. Unfortunately, the same tests concluded that "There was a pressure drop across the oil filter resulting from possible clogging of small passageways." Oil analysis showed that iron contamination doubled after the treatment, indicating that engine wear increased (Rau).

the FTC and Slick 50

In 1997, three subsidiaries of Quaker State Corp. (the makers of Slick 50) settled Federal Trade Commission charges that ads for Quaker State's Slick 50 Engine Treatment were false and unsubstantiated. According to the FTC complaint, claims such as the following made in Slick 50 ads falsely represented that without Slick 50, auto engines generally have little or no protection from wear at start-up and commonly experience premature failure caused by wear:

"Every time you cold start your car without Slick 50 protection, metal grinds against metal in your engine."

"With each turn of the ignition you do unseen damage, because at cold start-up most of the oil is down in the pan. But Slick 50's unique chemistry bonds to engine parts. It reduces wear up to 50% for 50,000 miles."

"What makes Slick 50 Automotive Engine Formula different is an advanced chemical support package designed to bond a specially activated PTFE to the metal in your engine."

In fact, the FTC said, "most automobile engines are adequately protected from wear at start-up when they use motor oil as recommended in the owner's manual. Moreover, it is uncommon for engines to experience premature failure caused by wear, whether they have been treated with Slick 50 or not.
 
Originally Posted By: NHGUY
Does Slick 50 One Lube still exist? I found that to be a good product.


Yes it is but it has been reformulated and renamed to Supercharged One Lube. The original One Lube was awesome and I used it on everything but especially my firearms. One Lube was great at protecting guns against saltwater. I have a couple cans of the new stuff and will be anxious to see if it works as well. I hope so as it was the best firearms lube/protectant I ever found.

You can get the new stuff at ACE Hardware or Napa. Those are 2 NH sources I know of.

Here is what the new can looks like...

 
Originally Posted By: Donald
Originally Posted By: sasha
Just scored 4 bottles of slick 50 for a total of $0.27. Do not know what to do with this [censored]. cannot believe it used to $27.99 a bottle. My max and kia are due for an oil change. should i dump all 4 in to one of the cars and see what will happen?


Snake oil. Dispose of properly. Its PFTE (Teflon). Does not belong in an engine (and thats according to Dupont the manufacturer).

Use high quality synthetic oil and forget the snake oil.


I am fairly certain that it hasn't contained PTFE for several years.
 
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