Did you know there are injection needle lubricants that a nurse could use to reduce the pain and discomfort one feels when getting a shot or blood draw? In 500 such procedures, maybe one nurse will take the time to add that extra step, or add the step to place a topical pain reliever on the skin before the needle stick. Why is that? They are too busy? They think it is no big deal? They are improperly trained? Cost of doing this for everyone? Maybe all of the above? Ask your nurse to use a lube and topical the next time your kids get a shot, they will not feel anything compared to the last time. Lubrication is not just for your combustion engines.
I did a major rebuild of my V8 motorcycle a number of years ago. I did a funny car rebuild project to it. I widened the gap between the two fuel tanks, and replaced the factory ZZ4 Crate Engine intake manifold with a high rise manifold that held two four barrel carbs. In taking the engine apart, the mechanic asked me what oil I used in my engine? I told him, rotella T, which I used at the time. He asked me what else I was using, and I asked him how he knew I was using something else? He said my engine had zero signs of ever having been used. No wear, no sludge, no used engines smells, nothing that showed the engine was being used as an engine except the points had signs of use, and the plugs had carbon on them. He said it looked like a new engine. I told him I used X-1R. This bike had hundreds of hours on it, thousands of miles, been at or near two hundred miles an hour on both street and dyno. It was a used engine, but well cared for.
I don't sell this stuff. I really do not care if any of you guys try fuel additives, or oil additives. Makes no difference to me. But it does bother me, knowing many people think all this oil jazz is just a bunch of noise, and all oil is the same. It is not. I would not put most major brands of oil any place close to my vehicles. The most popular brands are high in ash, low in quality and barely pass quality control standards they themselves made for the industry they own. In other words, in the world of oils, the inmates are running the assylum. Most people today have a big brand name oil in their car. Pensoil, quaker state, or other such oils. Yes, that is engine oil, by the engine oil standards they themselves established. I choose not to run that stuff in my vehicles. Never. Car manufactures use that stuff, and recommend it for their cars, so it must be good. Right? Remember, they like to sell new cars, and sell you repairs on your old one.
You need a certain amount of wear to get all the piston rings to work properly. This is after one or two oil changes. Then I add my oil additives.
I did a major rebuild of my V8 motorcycle a number of years ago. I did a funny car rebuild project to it. I widened the gap between the two fuel tanks, and replaced the factory ZZ4 Crate Engine intake manifold with a high rise manifold that held two four barrel carbs. In taking the engine apart, the mechanic asked me what oil I used in my engine? I told him, rotella T, which I used at the time. He asked me what else I was using, and I asked him how he knew I was using something else? He said my engine had zero signs of ever having been used. No wear, no sludge, no used engines smells, nothing that showed the engine was being used as an engine except the points had signs of use, and the plugs had carbon on them. He said it looked like a new engine. I told him I used X-1R. This bike had hundreds of hours on it, thousands of miles, been at or near two hundred miles an hour on both street and dyno. It was a used engine, but well cared for.
I don't sell this stuff. I really do not care if any of you guys try fuel additives, or oil additives. Makes no difference to me. But it does bother me, knowing many people think all this oil jazz is just a bunch of noise, and all oil is the same. It is not. I would not put most major brands of oil any place close to my vehicles. The most popular brands are high in ash, low in quality and barely pass quality control standards they themselves made for the industry they own. In other words, in the world of oils, the inmates are running the assylum. Most people today have a big brand name oil in their car. Pensoil, quaker state, or other such oils. Yes, that is engine oil, by the engine oil standards they themselves established. I choose not to run that stuff in my vehicles. Never. Car manufactures use that stuff, and recommend it for their cars, so it must be good. Right? Remember, they like to sell new cars, and sell you repairs on your old one.
You need a certain amount of wear to get all the piston rings to work properly. This is after one or two oil changes. Then I add my oil additives.
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