Slick 50?

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Oct 6, 2011
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I am a big boy. If I get to feeling a little trodden on, I can always nurse on my X1R bottle. Lol.

Our culture is taught to accept tradition as truth. Even when we know it is a lie. We teach the lies to our children and push them to lie to their children. Example? We just spent billions on it. Santa Claus.

Does not stop at that lie, we have ground hog day, tooth fairy, boogie man, and about a thousand more we teach our children. In school, we teach kids to debate rather than find the truth. Our laws are blind justice in the courts system and on and on. When truth is found it is always ridiculed by the masses until later the truth is held to be self evident.

Is oil additives a waste of time and money? I would say in a debate it is for about 99% of the people, unless of course it is under the tree from Santa.

The single most important thing you can do for an internal combustion engine is change oil and filters like it was Moses commanding you do so. If you do that, you will operate that engine for many many years trouble free. This statement is correct in the vast majority of circumstances. If, however, you wish to supplement your Maintance procedures with better filters, or jazzed up oil, or oil additives, I would say the end result will be as good or better than had you stayed with factory recommendations. I personally feel one should get ultra premium filters, same with oil. Get the very best. Additives? I just spent ten extra bucks on a premium filter and twice that on premium oil, are you kidding. Nothing is too good for the family of mine that depends on reliable transportation. Hell yes, I will purchase a bottle of whatever the best oil additive available in the market place. Thirty years ago that was slick 50. Today it seems to be X1R. Tomorrow will again have something that is cutting edge technology. And again tomorrow, I will be there taking advantage of whatever is offered.
 
Oct 6, 2011
678
CM 32 USA
Off subject or at least tilt. Almost thirty years ago, I read about magnets replacing water treatment equipment in the home. I found everything I could read on the subject which was not much. I purchased a bunch of magnets and started to tinker. After several unsuccessful attempts, I almost gave up. We had very hard water along with a rotten egg smell. Well water. We had a water conditioning system that used salt and three filterers that needed a lot of routine Maintance. I hated lugging salt and changing filters every few weeks.

I kept reading. Tinkering. Then one day I noticed the rust stains were gone in the toilet. My wife said she did not scrub them out. The dishwasher insides changed from brown to factory white, and the egg smell was gone. That was thirty years ago. Have not purchased one bag of salt or one water filter. Our water is treated with magnets I designed that are in several places on our water pipes. Our water heater is twenty five years old and still works like new.

Why this story in a boat forum in a thread on oil additives??? It is because we all must choose who and what to believe. My truth is not your truth. Life is seldom black and white. Magnets are against the law in home water treatment in many states because the attorney general of some states say they do not work and rip people off. They are against the law to sell in Nebraska or were. I did not accept the accepted notion they could not work, and made my own. I can tell you they do work. For one thing they lower the surface tension of the water. Feels like there is soap in the water. Softer. It does more than that, but I know it sure does what we needed.

Just because some attorney tells me an oil additive does not work or a magnet does not soften water, I tell him to shove off, I can figure out what works and what does not work myself. I have eyes with a brain behind them and ears with a brain between them. I can reason things out in my own mind.

You can run fuel through magnets also but I have not experimented with that one yet. It is reported to increase mileage but I would have to see that.
 
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