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Re: Oil and Metal

To: "Just Brits" <justbrits@comcast.net>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Oil and Metal
From: "Terry Smith" <terryrs@adelphia.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:54:52 -0400
> Terry:
>
> At the "serious" risk of incurring Randell's and Joe C.'s wrath <VBG>:
>
> <<I swear, it seems to me sometimes that oil actually soaks into metal. 
> Or
> maybe it's just that there is a thin film of oil on cylinder walls that
> never
> seems to go away. Every head I've pulled, if I run my finger on the 
> cylinder
> wall, it "feels" lightly oiled.>>
>
> You would be correct.
>
> <<Are oil molecules too big to squeeze into metal pores?>>
>
> Nope.<BG>
>
> <<  Isn't this how cast iron frying pans are "seasoned" with oil?>>
>
> EXACTLY!!!!
>
> BUT, that said, one has to keep in mind TEMPERATURE!!!!!
>
> To "do" a skillet, what do you have to do????
>
> Bring it to HOT temp., right??  What does any metal do when HOT???
>
> E    X    P    A    N    D    !
>
> Think you coukld "season" a skillet left in the freezer overnite???
>
> <G>
>
> Ed
>
> PS:  Yes, I WILL be replying to the Compression Test posts<VVVBG>!!!
> PPS:  'Course with a grain of salt as only been doing for 
> decades<G><F><G>!
> PPPS:  NO, I will NOT say how many except that I re-built a one-year old 
> MGA
> motor.



Okay, I'm the Terry from New Hampshire.

:o)




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