On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:11:36 -0700, engsol
wrote:

I did a google, and found the below web site. Quite interesting
"oil-wise". Talks about cold-start also. Download the "Oil Bible"
(177 pdf pages)...it explains the attributes of motor oil, the
standards,and the testing methods. I now know what the "5"
stands for in 5W30...and it isnt' what I thought it was...
http://www.trustmymechanic.com/motoroil.html
If anyone spots a more authoritive source, I'd appreciate
hearing about it.
Norm B

I can always learn something new about oil.
Then I saw their definition of viscosity index as ability to maintain
viscosity over a wide range of temperatures.

That was enough for me.
Forget it.

Brian W

Brian Whatcott wrote:

I can always learn something new about oil.
Then I saw their definition of viscosity index as ability to maintain
viscosity over a wide range of temperatures.

That was enough for me.
Forget it.

???

You must have read something Jax wrote. The quote below is directly cut
and pasted from the site ... it is about as accurate a definition as you
will find anywhere.

"The viscosity index of an oil is a measure of its tendency to change
viscosity with temperature changes. The higher the viscosity index (VI)
the more consistent an oil's viscosity is with temperature changes."

Rick

gene, as I recall you mentioned it took you many, many years to get that same
license my high school buddy had before his 19th birthday.

So, one difference between you and he is that I taught him in his early days,

a second difference is the years and years and years you spent learning what he
learned in a year, and

he found he could make better money as a carpenter and thus left the business.
It seems no one would hire you as a carpenter.

actually gene, I taught him much of what he knew about mechanics while we
were
still in junior and senior high school (I worked as a professinal mechanic
starting the summer I was twelve years old, my father owned the place)......

Oh, boy...... you can always tell a "professinal," but you can't tell
them much....


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http://myworkshop.idleplay.net/cavern/ Homepage
http://www.southharbourvillageinn.com/directions.asp Where Southport,NC
is located.
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Pictures at My Marina
http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats Rec.boats
at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide

Poor and inaccurate recollection.... makes one wonder where you got
that idea... Fact is, I earned my license in the minimum time required
by the FAA.

Poor and inaccurate recollection.... makes one wonder where you got
that idea... Fact is, I earned my license in the minimum time required
by the FAA.

age what?

He must have been lucky to have a twelve year old professional
mechanic as a teacher. Few people have had this, uh, advantage....


lucky? maybe. Whatever you wish to call it, but he had that license you brag
about while he was still 18 years old.

by the way, the military thought so much of that license they made him a
rifleman.

keep in mind as well, that after his service you did make a living for himself
with that license but with a growing family I chose the more remunirative
career as that of a capenter.

Most people aren't capable of working in .001 and .0001 and find the
pressure of doing it right the first time or suffering the penalty of
causing loss of property or life too much...

really? you find working at that level to be genuine strain? No wonder you
never became a carpenter. You would have cut all your fingers off the first
season.

On 24 Jun 2004 02:03:47 GMT, something compelled
(JAXAshby), to say:

He must have been lucky to have a twelve year old professional
mechanic as a teacher. Few people have had this, uh, advantage....


lucky? maybe. Whatever you wish to call it, but he had that license you brag
about while he was still 18 years old.

by the way, the military thought so much of that license they made him a
rifleman.

keep in mind as well, that after his service you did make a living for himself
with that license but with a growing family I chose the more remunirative
career as that of a capenter.

Ah. JAX is a carpenter, with imaginary friends.

Ah. JAX is a carpenter

I have never worked as a carpenter in my life. I never worked as a librarian
or short order cook or cattle rancher or college professor teaching art history
either. I have worked as a professional killer, but that was a long time and I
worked for my uncle.