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Old 12-27-2013, 04:17 PM   #107 (permalink)
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You have to understand that the particles become fixed.

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Originally Posted by slownugly View Post
That's precisely what I'm asking. If you have oil slipping past rings how do you know if this stuff won't slip by even easier?

Edit: I'd actually consider trying this stuff on some systems like wheel bearings and power steering. Maybe tranny. How much would you inject into a wheel bearing?
Energetic "burnishing" forces are needed to apply and imbed a thin coating of the particles on the surfaces. The nano coating is so thin ( a millionth of a milli meter scale ) that it will not be an interference fit on the macro scale and thus of no worry. If ring seal was properly obtained to begin with, it should stay so after a nano lubricant application.

But this brings to question the need to produce a "spherical cluster" of nano diamonds. If the nano diamonds are indeed burnished into the parent metal, the spherical shape would seem as less of an advantage over the better known prismatic shapes.

DiamondLube, you also mention a claim for a "life time" application. While I can see this being true for gears and bearings, the ring and cylinder wall are exposed to combustion temperatures exceeding 1300 degrees centigrade albeit for brief time spans before the metal mass draws off the heat to form the quench layer. Since your product is diamond and diamond starts breaking down at 450 deg C, and rapidly decays or even ignites at 1000 deg C and above, wouldn't a constant replenishment of the lubricant be needed to maintain the ring/cylinder lubrication?