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Old 10-11-2012, 08:27 PM   #8 (permalink)
oil pan 4
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Originally Posted by euromodder View Post
Most of it is wasted.
It's going up the drain in kiddie balloons, lost as a carrier in GC appliances , lost on people talking funny, bubbles up from deep-sea diving ...
I was planning on using alittle bit as a shielding gas for welding stainless steel and maybe aluminum.
And doing a tire experement.
Purge and Fill one trailer tire with 55psi of argon (a slow gas) and the other with 55psi of helium (conducts heat 6 times faster than air and something like 8 to 10 times faster than argon) and use my inferred temperature gun to try and detect a difference in tread temperature between the 2 tires after driving.
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1984 chevy suburban, custom made 6.5L diesel turbocharged with a Garrett T76 and Holset HE351VE, 22:1 compression 13psi of intercooled boost.
1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
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