The Peckish Synapse

Grumpy Bear · September 15, 2024

1 hour ago, customboss said:

Good old copper best. Just won’t last long in today’s engines. You want a spark “processor“ that works best engine design. I helped design plasma plugs for certain R&D engines.
Note Haven’t had time to watch the video yet.

It was less about what's best and more about the history of sparkplugs and the choices by ignition design. Just interesting.

Grumpy Bear · November 18, 2024

You are doing so well humanity

https://www.thenationalliteracyinsti...ere-we-are-now

A friend of mine hung himself in his garage a few days ago. I knew him from church, the neighborhood, motorcycles and cars. He was a giving sort. Shirt off his back kind of guy. Honest and trustworthy, funny, educated and quite experienced and because he was; taken advantage of at almost every turn. He found this behavior puzzling. We both did. Almost half of America is literate only to a 5th grade level and yet, everyone is an expert. The few who are educated and experienced and who try to be useful and helpful get rewarded with indignity, mockery and a big fat cancel. Robert would lend a cup of sugar and be handed back a scorpion and laughed at for being so stupid as to be kind.

Then we have a class of truly educated people who believe they are gods and find those who are kind and helpful weak and pathetic. Pick at every fault and mistake while minimizing there own if they a knowledge them at all.

He could not reconcile what he new to be right and true with his experience and lord he tried. Until it broke him.

This world finds it way to hard to just say, Thank You to kindness.

customboss · November 18, 2024

6 hours ago, Grumpy Bear said:

You are doing so well humanity

https://www.thenationalliteracyinsti...ere-we-are-now

A friend of mine hung himself in his garage a few days ago. I knew him from church, the neighborhood, motorcycles and cars. He was a giving sort. Shirt off his back kind of guy. Honest and trustworthy, funny, educated and quite experienced and because he was; taken advantage of at almost every turn. He found this behavior puzzling. We both did. Almost half of America is literate only to a 5th grade level and yet, everyone is an expert. The few who are educated and experienced and who try to be useful and helpful get rewarded with indignity, mockery and a big fat cancel. Robert would lend a cup of sugar and be handed back a scorpion and laughed at for being so stupid as to be kind.

Then we have a class of truly educated people who believe they are gods and find those who are kind and helpful weak and pathetic. Pick at every fault and mistake while minimizing there own if they a knowledge them at all.

He could not reconcile what he new to be right and true with his experience and lord he tried. Until it broke him.

This world finds it way to hard to just say, Thank You to kindness.

I’m so sorry for your loss Grumpy.

Grumpy Bear · November 19, 2024

6 hours ago, customboss said:

I’m so sorry for your loss Grumpy.

I'm more angry that sad sir. People just can't do 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T" anymore.

Thanks. You would have liked him.

diyer2 · November 19, 2024

I went through people taking advantage of me, knocking on my door when the car had a problem or their was a problem with the house. Not once did anyone fork over any money when I saved them money.

I started telling them I can't help you. I finally wised up.

customboss · November 19, 2024

12 hours ago, Grumpy Bear said:

I'm more angry that sad sir. People just can't do 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T" anymore.

Thanks. You would have liked him.

I get the feeling. I give and help expecting nothing in return. That clears my personal grievance most of the time.

customboss · November 19, 2024

2 hours ago, diyer2 said:

I went through people taking advantage of me, knocking on my door when the car had a problem or their was a problem with the house. Not once did anyone fork over any money when I saved them money.

I started telling them I can't help you. I finally wised up.

Shame on them.

KARNUT · November 19, 2024

Sorry for your loss. When I help someone I expect nothing in return. I can’t put myself in the area of depression. I’m a happy person. The only person who can affect my mood is my wife. And that’s only for awhile. My daughter had problems with depression after foolishly doing kick boxing for awhile. And then being involved in a head on accident. After awhile being diagnosed with Lupus after falling down a flight of stairs. Suffering another concussion. Finally they found medication that lifted her out her fog. The side effect is she doesn’t shut up. I’ll take it. Family gatherings are funny steering her through different subjects. She has a wonderful husband. We were stuck on a cruise when I found out she made an attempt years ago. For the first time in my life I couldn’t offer her any advice just support. She can’t drive anymore we make sure to be available anytime. It’s a scary thing, I don’t understand it. Even the poorest among us are better off than most. Even on a dreary day I feel like the luckiest person alive. It sucks for those people.

customboss · November 19, 2024

4 hours ago, KARNUT said:

Sorry for your loss. When I help someone I expect nothing in return. I can’t put myself in the area of depression. I’m a happy person. The only person who can affect my mood is my wife. And that’s only for awhile. My daughter had problems with depression after foolishly doing kick boxing for awhile. And then being involved in a head on accident. After awhile being diagnosed with Lupus after falling down a flight of stairs. Suffering another concussion. Finally they found medication that lifted her out her fog. The side effect is she doesn’t shut up. I’ll take it. Family gatherings are funny steering her through different subjects. She has a wonderful husband. We were stuck on a cruise when I found out she made an attempt years ago. For the first time in my life I couldn’t offer her any advice just support. She can’t drive anymore we make sure to be available anytime. It’s a scary thing, I don’t understand it. Even the poorest among us are better off than most. Even on a dreary day I feel like the luckiest person alive. It sucks for those people.

Lupus is terrible I send good vibes of healing to your daughter. I am like you as far as depression, not in my brain chemistry so far. My sister is having terrible issues with clinical depression and its horrible too.

Grumpy Bear · November 19, 2024

1 hour ago, customboss said:

Lupus is terrible I send good vibes of healing to your daughter. I am like you as far as depression, not in my brain chemistry so far. My sister is having terrible issues with clinical depression and its horrible too.

I was born with it like a Zebra is born with stripes. And like a Zebra I don't give my stripes much notice unless someone points it out. Then I look at it more with curiosity that fear. Makes me freakishly insensitive to it in others. Like I'm looking at another zebra and wondering what the fuss is about. That part I don't like at all. I'm Drain-Bamaged. I think it would freak me out if it disappeared.

I think about that sometimes. Imagine being born blind and then at say 50 some advancement in science gives you 20/20 vision. You wouldn't even know what you were looking at. Sensory overload! BOOM.

Yea, I know. TMI. :dunno:

KARNUT · November 19, 2024

15 minutes ago, Grumpy Bear said:

I was born with it like a Zebra is born with stripes. And like a Zebra I don't give my stripes much notice unless someone points it out. Then I look at it more with curiosity that fear. Makes me freakishly insensitive to it in others. Like I'm looking at another zebra and wondering what the fuss is about. That part I don't like at all. I'm Drain-Bamaged. I think it would freak me out if it disappeared.

I think about that sometimes. Imagine being born blind and then at say 50 some advancement in science gives you 20/20 vision. You wouldn't even know what you were looking at. Sensory overload! BOOM.

Yea, I know. TMI.

I lost 50 percent of my hearing at 7 after high fever with measles. Mostly higher sounds. I hear lower sounds better than most. I can read lips, I just pick it up. At 27 years old my wife convinced me to get hearing aids. For the first time I heard a toilet filling up in the next room. Leaves rusting in trees. Keys jingle in my pocket. It drove me crazy. I couldn’t do it. They live in my closet. Normal is in the mind of the beholder. Everyone else is crazy,stupid, dumb. I’m normal. Say it isn’t so.

Edited November 19, 2024 by KARNUT

Donstar · November 21, 2024

Sorry for your loss Grumpy. Suicide is awful for others to experience. Like many/most others by our age, I have experienced the grief. Anger is a good way to describe the grief we feel over suicide.

Grumpy Bear · November 29, 2024

Let's have us some fun, eh?

https://amsoilcontent.com/ams/lit/databulletins/g2880.pdf

https://www.redlineoil.com/Content/files/tech/EURO_5W30_PROD_INFO2023.pdf

Question. What is the trade? Let's limit it to just the AMSOIL SS to Red Line HP portion.

We have some hints.

Hint #1 NOACK viscosity.

AMSOIL SS 5W30 6.7%

Red Line HP 5W30 5.0%

Hint #2 HTHS

AMSOIL SS 3.11

Red Line HP 3.6

Hint #3: Recommended Dexos application

AMSOIL SS Dexos1Gen2/3

Red Line HP adds Dexos2 and PORSCHE C30 VW/AUDI 504/507 ACEA C3

So again, what is the trade? Base oil viscosity AND volatility. Granted the volatility is just over HALF the Dexos1Gen3 standard of 12.5% and well within the 15% SAE SP marker. But hardly the point of this post.

What is to the point is AMSOIL SS relies on POLYMER more than base oil for it's high shear/high temperature viscosity.

The trade is:

"Film Strength"

That term really means film thickness at a base temperature, load and speed. Stribeck once more.

Motors use POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT PUMPS. 8 gpm is 8 gpm no matter if it is 4000 Poise or 6000 Poise. If it's liquid, it moves at the same rate. All that happens is the Red Line HP cold starts at a higher pressure.

I'm not picking on AMSOIL. I'm using the information they provide to make a point about marketing. Did you get it?

OnTheReel · November 29, 2024

1 hour ago, Grumpy Bear said:

Motors use POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT PUMPS. 8 gpm is 8 gpm no matter if it is 4000 Poise or 6000 Poise. If it's liquid, it moves at the same rate. All that happens is the Red Line HP cold starts at a higher pressure.

Until / unless the oil pump goes into relief, of course. Not gonna happen in the difference between the two 5w30s in your example but you know how literal everyone is on the internet.

Grumpy Bear · November 29, 2024

Just now, OnTheReel said:

Until / unless the oil pump goes into relief, of course. Not gonna happen in the difference between the two 5w30s in your example but you know how literal everyone is on the internet.

I do and I thought about adding that. Thing is the vain pumps we use today do not dump oil from the pump outlet to the inlet before the filter. They sense at the end of the main galley and dump if pressure is to high at circuit end instead. By that time, she's greased but good. :crackup:

If you have an old school SBC/Ford etc. and daily drive it in -22 F temperatures or colder then maybe you have a case if most of those miles are in city, short hop, oil never gets to temperature situations.