Now this is good stuff ! Thanks Edwin, and also to ALL who replied. There was
some very good information sent.
Mr. Gene Balinski (MGB) ; - )
80 'B
At 03:47 PM 6/30/00 -0500, M. Edwin Vaughan wrote:
>Gleaned from the pages of British Car #69, October-November 1997, pg. 45
>
>"Viscosity is a measure of the thickness of the oil at a given
>temperature. The traditional way in which viscosity is measured is to
>place a set volume of the oil into a device with a calibrated orifice at
>the bottom, and to time the oil as it flows through the orifice. The
>viscosity number is the time (in seconds) that it takes for the oil to
>flow out of the orifice. From this, you can see that the higher the
>viscosity number is, the thicker the oil. [...] The "w" stands for
>winter, and it means that the oil meeting that viscosity was tested at
>zero degrees. Viscosities listed without the "w" were tested at 200
>degrees."
>
>Hope this helps. Now I've got to put this stack of British Car magazines
>back in order. One day I will make a index of all these issues and make
>finding stuff like this easy!
>
>Edwin
>'77 MGB
>
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