Originally Posted By: Gokhan
My main criticism of "thick-oil people" is that they believe that there is really not an optimal viscosity for wear protection and the engine wear will uniformly decrease when you keep increasing the oil viscosity. They believe that even if you don't notice a difference, margin of protection against wear will always keep increasing with increasing viscosity.
Actually that is the strawman that you continue to bring out...I haven't heard anybody on the board EVER say that increasing viscosity eternally will always improve wear.
Yet, that's the strawman that you've placed against me in various threads, and continue to espouse as in this quote.
Originally Posted By: Gokhan
Any reasonable person knows that too much of a good thing is a bad thing and any engineer knows that there is an optimal range with minimums and maximums for almost any engineering design.
Quick question...
hands up anyone in this thread with an engineering degree and a quarter century in rotating equipment...
*raises hand*
My main criticism of "thick-oil people" is that they believe that there is really not an optimal viscosity for wear protection and the engine wear will uniformly decrease when you keep increasing the oil viscosity. They believe that even if you don't notice a difference, margin of protection against wear will always keep increasing with increasing viscosity.
Actually that is the strawman that you continue to bring out...I haven't heard anybody on the board EVER say that increasing viscosity eternally will always improve wear.
Yet, that's the strawman that you've placed against me in various threads, and continue to espouse as in this quote.
Originally Posted By: Gokhan
Any reasonable person knows that too much of a good thing is a bad thing and any engineer knows that there is an optimal range with minimums and maximums for almost any engineering design.
Quick question...
hands up anyone in this thread with an engineering degree and a quarter century in rotating equipment...
*raises hand*