Rete

Cause he was getting older and was afraid he would forget what your name was.

Pulaski

I am well aware of that - it is not coincidence that we use Mobil 1 exclusively. Thanks to some idiot judge in Chicago, it is legal to call oil "full synthetic" when it is only partially synthetic oil blended with heat-treated mineral oil.

There are only two brands of oil that are truely "full synthetic", one is Mobil 1, and the other is AMSOIL, which is not a major company.

Twinkle0927

Those wooden and metal signs that people have all over their living rooms that say things like "live, love, laugh" or "follow your dreams", "family", "home is where the heart is" or other such nonsense.

petitefrancaise

Beige walls in houses. Or worse, greige. What's wrong with magnolia??

moneypenny20

They're bad enough but what I really dislike is where they've had some artist come in and actually paint them on the wall in a fancy font. One friend years ago had the room name painted on the wall. Yes I see why you need 'Kitchen' written above the kitchen window and honestly, how did we not know we were in the Living Room without the script on the wall?

I like tattoos and have two. Sorry BEVS

DandNHill

My husband bought himself one of those apple watches on my big 0 birthday this year... wondering what I'm going to treat myself to on his birthday! 🤔

moneypenny20

We saw a woman in the supermarket the other day chatting into her watch. Looked so damn stupid Even more daft was that she had her mobile in her other hand.

Shard

I still remember 20+ years ago, when you used see people walking down the street talking on their hands free wired headphone, and thinking they were mad. Now, I think we've developed a kind of public etiquette/norm for this, whereby we hold our device at chest level while speaking, probably to indicate that we are not in fact mad!

The other changed practice I note is with headphone. I remember way back (80's) when Walkmans first came out, and comedy shows used to parody people wearing big proper hifi headphones out in public! Funny then, normal now.

Shard

Not saying "Right Arm" and "Left Arm" presumably.

uk_grenada

Thats just not true, as i explained above, VAG use very high pressure fuel injection. To avoid wear, the mechanism requires high shear resistance in the oil, so their spec is a little different and in europe all the oil co's sell a vag specific oil or three and charge a bit more for it. Mobil included, i used to use it in my audi. Effectively the curve of oil temp vs viscosity is tweaked and the polymer they use to stick it to steel is enhanced.

If you check out castrol in europe while they have 3-4 quality grades, the cheapest meets the manufacturers requirements, the others just un-necessarily exceed them, unless you are considering racing or exceeding the manufacturers use limitations in some way. The only non-standard oil we see is vag, plus the vag special [must be based on gold given the price] they use for SOME RS engines.

American engines arent looser or cruder, the only difference is that in america it looks as though its still possible to buy rubbish oil.

PS if you want to change oil every month try adding castor oil, a great lubricant and smells lovely, just dies quickly. [see castrol R.]

'It is curious that we understand much better than its inventors the way Castrol R works, yet take it for granted. Keith Howard redresses that balance

In the case of Sir Charles Cheers Wakefield, later Baron Wakefield of Hythe, the sweet smell of success was more than a metaphor. You still catch the scent of the substance that made his company a household name in the early 1900s wherever older racing engines are exercised: that distinctive, heady perfume of Castrol R. Although castor oil, the origin of the smell, was still the purgative bane of many a childhood when C C Wakefield & Co introduced its Castrol range in 1909 (the name being a contraction of castor oil), to high performance engines on the road and in the air it was to become a more welcome part of the diet.

The story begins in 1899 when, having spent 15 years working for the London office of Vacuum Oil Company of Rochester, NY, later to metamorphose into Mobil, Charles Wakefield resigned his position as general manager and determined to strike out on his own. It was an auspicious time to be doing so. Within four years the Wright Brothers would take tentatively to the air, followed albeit somewhat belatedly by compatriot Samuel Franklin Cody at Famborough in 1908. A year later Louis Bleriot flew the English Channel and, five years after that, storm clouds over Europe would spur a period of unprecedented aircraft development effort. On the ground, progress was scarcely less momentous as the horseless carriage progressed from being a curiosity and plaything into an increasingly practical mechanism, as well as another vehicle of human endeavour and national rivalry.

Charles Wakefield wasn't slow to realise that here lay both an important new market for lubricating oils and, just as significantly, a whole new marketing opportunity also. The world was agog at the daredevil exploits unfolding on land and in the air; having your product name attached to such derringdo was a golden opportunity to exploit what today we would call product placement. So Charles Wakefield determined to produce a new breed of oil for this new breed of machine, and make certain that the world knew of it.

Engine oil development, like engine development itself, was then in its infancy. Today's world of multigrade and synthetic oils was a long way off. Prior to the sinking of the first petroleum well in 1859, engineers had had to use animal and vegetable fats and oils for lubrication, but these proved far from ideal at the extremes of temperature involved in the internal combustion engine. As every cook knows, fats and oils thicken when you put them in the fridge and leave gummy, varnish-like deposits when you heat them in a pan. This same behaviour in an engine made cold cranking difficult on startup, while oxidation of the lubricant at combustion temperatures could, literally, gum up the works.

Mineral oils relieved these limitations, even in their early forms offering a level of thermal and oxidative stability traditional lubricants couldn't match. But they were far from perfect In particular they lacked what, at the time, was termed "oiliness", the ability to adhere to metal surfaces in a thin, continuous film. Wakefield researchers found that whereas castor oil coated a hot metal surface, mineral oil tended to pool on it, leaving areas of metal exposed.

Today we have a much better understanding of why this happens. Castor oil is composed almost entirely of triglyceride fatty acids, of which ricinoleic glycerides form by far the largest proportion (typically around 86 per cent). Fatty acids are polarised molecules comprising an oily, hydrophobic (water-hating) head and a hydrophilic (water-loving) tail; the hydrophilic ends of castor oil molecules are adsorbed to the metal surface, leaving the oily heads protruding.

The result is that castor oil provides excellent boundary lubrication, much better than that achieved by early mineral alternatives. In hydrodynamic bearings, like crankshaft bearings, where a relatively thick layer of oil is established, this offers no benefits. But where the oil layer is thin — on cylinder walls and cam lobes, for instance — it ensures a higher level of scuff resistance.

Mixing castor and mineral oil therefore seemed a good idea in the early 1900s, but the two are not readily miscible. What Wakefield researchers discovered was that a surprisingly small proportion of castor oil — as little as 0.7 per cent — was sufficient to confer its high film strength on the mix, and thus Wakefield Motor Oil (Castrol Brand) was born. In fact, five variants were introduced initially for different applications, Castrol R being the flagship product intended for aero and racing engines. Wakefield & Co's core business was — and in the immediate future, would remain — lubricants for the railways and industrial customers, but it was Castrol Brand that was to carry the company name to the four corners of the globe.'

Leslie

Those make me violent.

Shard

Breathe




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SultanOfSwing

You know what, I used to rag on fidget spinners when they first spiked in popularity earlier in the year, but then my daughter started asking me for one. She's 7, she didn't want to feel left out, so I decided after trying to ignore her for a while that I'd just surprise her with one on the way home from work one day. The look on her face when I gave it to her, on a Friday afternoon at the end of a particularly shitty week at work when everyone was getting reamed out unnecessarily by the owner made my weekend.

So yeah, fadget spanners are OK with me now.

I thought I was the only one

Not that I care what someone does with their own body, I just don't see the point, myself.

Leslie

*middle finger emoticon*

Shard

Lol