Oil Detergents
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Re: Oil Detergents
Yes, but did you noticed the sparks fly? ;-)
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Will Honea wrote:
>
> Those are the same folks who, after using gasoline to clean the
> bearing, use an air hose and spin them to dry all the gasoline out.
> Then it doesn't matter if the grease is clobbered since the high speed
> dry run has already done the damage.
>
> No, I suspect that the drip gas has a pretty high butane content. It
> collects in the piping where the 6-10 inch casing is necked down and
> throttled on the way to the natural gas storage, so it is effectively
> a distillation byproduct from a really crude natural gas process. The
> production of gasoline is also a selective distillation process under
> tightly controlled conditions followed by additional processing. All
> the cracking and catalytic processing done to crude just breaks that
> raw material down to more useful and desirable components before
> fractional distilling separates out some of the desired products like
> benzene, kerosene, etc. As I'm sure you are aware, they use
> "everything but the oink" for one thing or another with the final
> residue going off as asphalt base and bunker oil. The amount we got
> was highly affected by the outside air temp and winter times would
> give us more than we could use while those balmy 100+ degree summer
> days slowed the flow to a trickle. Those same temps also made it boil
> off quite a bit, but what the heck - it was free. The stuff is a
> pretty good grease solvent as well - Grandma used it to get overalls
> clean before washing - but I would be hesitatant about putting it into
> a modern engine that I wanted to keep for any length of time.
>
> For all intents and purposes, it acted about like the old sub-regular
> that Gulf and Sunonco used to sell as Gulftane, etc. Just another
> nostalgic curiosity from "the good old days".
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Will Honea wrote:
>
> Those are the same folks who, after using gasoline to clean the
> bearing, use an air hose and spin them to dry all the gasoline out.
> Then it doesn't matter if the grease is clobbered since the high speed
> dry run has already done the damage.
>
> No, I suspect that the drip gas has a pretty high butane content. It
> collects in the piping where the 6-10 inch casing is necked down and
> throttled on the way to the natural gas storage, so it is effectively
> a distillation byproduct from a really crude natural gas process. The
> production of gasoline is also a selective distillation process under
> tightly controlled conditions followed by additional processing. All
> the cracking and catalytic processing done to crude just breaks that
> raw material down to more useful and desirable components before
> fractional distilling separates out some of the desired products like
> benzene, kerosene, etc. As I'm sure you are aware, they use
> "everything but the oink" for one thing or another with the final
> residue going off as asphalt base and bunker oil. The amount we got
> was highly affected by the outside air temp and winter times would
> give us more than we could use while those balmy 100+ degree summer
> days slowed the flow to a trickle. Those same temps also made it boil
> off quite a bit, but what the heck - it was free. The stuff is a
> pretty good grease solvent as well - Grandma used it to get overalls
> clean before washing - but I would be hesitatant about putting it into
> a modern engine that I wanted to keep for any length of time.
>
> For all intents and purposes, it acted about like the old sub-regular
> that Gulf and Sunonco used to sell as Gulftane, etc. Just another
> nostalgic curiosity from "the good old days".
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