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Originally Posted by Logic
There were world renowned engineers around saying heavier than air flight was impossible just before the Wright Brothers' first flight.
Statistically a new fantastic new idea, that seems too good to be true, comes around about once every 30 years.
I believe, from experience, that this is one.
Why else would I risk my rep here? It's not like I make anything from tharing my experience with Boric Acid...
But I get it; not everyone likes to, or is even capable of, changing their minds when presented with new facts...
Here's a fact: There's metal participles attached to the magnet in the engine sump plug that everyone cleans off every time they change the oil.
IF
There's no metal to metal contact between engine bearing surfaces
THEN
Where do these particles come from?
Teleportation??! 
Yes sure the bearing surface mostly float over each other... mostly...
What would happen to their ability to float if the gap between them was smaller and smoother on a microscopic level?
What would happen if the acids that form in old engine oil could not pit bearing surfaces because there was a chemically inert ceramic layer with 85% the hardness of diamond attached to said surface?
I NB you haven't taken up the challenge of finding peer reviewed, published, research saying Boric Acid in oil DOES NOT work.
Why is that..?
I have 25 papers ready to go in my favorites so far. Lets play! |
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1) The first question one must ask is, is what they're observing 'normal' or 'abnormal.'
2) The second question would be, where on the timeline of engine technology does 'my' engine fall?
3) Superfinishing has been on-going since 1989.
4) Superfinishing accomplishes the same thing as what 'Boron' promised.
5) Superfinishing 'removes' the 'asperities' which historically posed a threat of 'high-pointing' during a severe load, allowing actual metal- to- metal contact that Dr. Erdemir hoped 'Boron's film-strength' could prevent, saving the engine.
6) Formula-1 has used superfinished valvetrains since the 1990s, allowing 14,000-rpm engines to survive to race another day.
Same for NASCAR, who's race teams can use the same 9,000-rpm engine for the 'entire' race season, because of 'asperity-free', and engineered 'rough' isotropic surfaces which are havens for oil to reside ( Too-smooth = Engine Death! )
7) Your 'ceramic' surface is a 'MYTH'. It NEVER happened!
8) It is from Dr. Ali Erdemir's 'Peer-reviewed' research that YOU provided that we learn that the 'theoretical concept', patented in 1994, never played out. Your 25-ppapers failed to make your case.
9) MotorSilk waited 17-years until the Argonne patent expired in 2012 before they got involved, probably paying 'nothing' in royalties. And they got an 'un-proven' technology ( unlike Fender electric guitars which anyone can manufacture, and sell; and the buyer gets a pretty good instrument even though it's only a 'clone.'