Oil friction tests

[Spicemelange]

Hi all in searching for oils came across this guy who completes friction tests for oils. There are lots of other factors for oils but any further info always helps. Tests are all the same just thought it might be of interest.
Document of tests

you tube link

 

[Nirvanauk]

What’s that all about then?

 

[Figaro]

Unless you're a industrial chemist specialist in lubricants, I don't think it means much to the average Joe public.
I'm happy to put my faith in a quality brand, Shell etc and let them worry about the technical stuff.
Someone's spent a lot of time compiling that though

But no, I'm not interested in supporting his channel through PayPal

 

[Spicemelange]

nor me supporting his channel just thought the info might help. I will simply try to get the best value and spsicifactions I can for oil. I have always used quality oil. Juts thought it was interesting how the oil protects and keeps things slippery

 

[cyberyacht]

I remember back in my impoverished youth I used to buy recycled filtered oil. Considering the car I had at the time only did about 25-30 miles to the pint of oil, I replenished it at frequent intervals.

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[Guigsy]

Is this becoming like £500/metre speaker wire? Sure, there's a theoretical difference, but if you're following manufacturer's guidelines about oil changes, which already have massive safety factors and worst case assumptions in... is it ever going to make a difference this side of 250,000 miles?

 

[Silver-Fox]

You do have to be careful with certain engines using the correct spec oil.

Electric cables very often run through the oily stuf

 

[jockaneezer]

A place I used to call at up at Blantyre had a huge "centipede" oil filtration tower, I think they used it ages ago for recycling transformer oil ? Anyhoo, when the plant closed down, Comma oils bought the centipede to filter used motor oil collected from garages, I was told that the mineral base oil didn't degrade that much, but it was the additives within that expired, so a run through the filter, new additives, a turn round the bottling plant and it was coming to a motor factor's near you ?