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Offline Tony

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Motor oil viscosity explained
« on: July 10, 2016, 04:11:42 PM »
This guy really clearly explains how motor oil viscosity ratings work, what pour point depressants and viscosity index improvers actually do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYkg0oDUXs8

I found it a fascinating watch so thought I'd share it here.

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Re: Motor oil viscosity explained
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2016, 05:20:32 PM »
i watched his explanation of how the wankel engine worked.  he is very good at explaining things.

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Re: Motor oil viscosity explained
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2016, 12:08:25 AM »
Engineering explained is one of my subscriptions on Youtube, its very good info. For technical but hilarious vids watch arduino versus evil, called AVE on youtube.
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Re: Motor oil viscosity explained
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2016, 10:00:09 PM »
Just watched it, very good.
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