Reference Oil With Well Tested Characteristics
Reference Oil With Well Tested Characteristics
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What would be a good reference oil to test dynamic characteristics?
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RE: Reference Oil With Well Tested Characteristics
It would help to know the ultimate purpose of the oil, or your experiments, to make any realistic suggestion.
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RE: Reference Oil With Well Tested Characteristics
RE: Reference Oil With Well Tested Characteristics
Without any other information, we can just give you wild ideas. How about USP grade mineral oil? The wife's mother likes Oil of Olay...
RE: Reference Oil With Well Tested Characteristics
The oil?
The pump?
The motor?
What exactly do _you_ mean by 'dynamic characteristics'?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Reference Oil With Well Tested Characteristics
RE: Reference Oil With Well Tested Characteristics
SAE 30W, as BigInch suggested. Most heavily documented oil wrt properties and applications.
Better would be to look at a variety of engines, and choose the type, grade, etc. that is common to most. Nowadays, that is likely to be a synthetic or blend.
RE: Reference Oil With Well Tested Characteristics