RE: Militec-1 additive

["Aaron Ness" <aaron@makuta.com>]

Interesting thing about Slick 50 - I read something a few years ago about a
test that Briggs and Stratton did.  They ran two engines - one with Slick
50, and one with just oil.  They ran them for 24 hours and drained the oil.
Then they ran them another 24 hours and disassembled them.  They both made
it, according to what I read.  Upon inspection, they found the engine with
Slick 50 was in worse shape than the one without.

I don't recall where I ran across that information - I believe it was
probably posted to the VintagVW list several years ago.  I wish I had some
way to verify it...

Aaron
'82 Scirocco
'70 Beetle
'87 Jeep Cherokee 4.0
'81 Honda CX500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corey Muscavitz [mailto:skyrocco16v@prodigy.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 3:45 PM
> To: aaron@makuta.com; 'scirocco'
> Subject: Re: Militec-1 additive
>
>
> my dad used to use an industrial equivilent to slick 50 way
> back in the late
> 70's.  what this had in it was a teflon additive.  what it
> claimed to do was
> to smoothen the cylinder walls, thus causing less friction.
> we put in our
> 91 suburban when it was new, and there was a noticable
> increase in fule
> mileage, and it's also supposed to hinder engine wear.  i
> haven't used it in
> my 'rocco, but am thinking about it.  my dad has used it in
> many of his
> older bmw's, audi's, and vdubs.  sometimes some people are a little
> over-skeptical about engine treatments.  sometimes (or maybey
> most) the
> claimes that are on the package do exaggerate what it
> actually does, but
> most of the time, it is due to the fact that they perfom
> these tests on new
> engines.
> i dunno, i don't really see any harm in additives, but hey,
> some people are
> just dead set against them.
> ~Corey
> 88 16v
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Aaron Ness <aaron@makuta.com>
> To: 'scirocco' <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:09 AM
> Subject: Militec-1 additive
>
>
> > Anyone ever hear of this stuff?  They say it's not an oil additive,
> because
> > although you add it to the oil, it doesn't modify the oil
> in any way.
> They
> > are claiming it adheres to the surfaces inside the engine
> and undergoes
> some
> > kind of reaction at 100-150 degrees F, increasing the stiffness (not
> > hardness) of the surface by a factor of 17.  (I think that
> number sounds a
> > little fishy - seems that number could only be valid for a specific
> > material.)
> >
> > Anyway, the stuff is $21.95 for the 8 ounces they recommend
> adding to a
> 4-6
> > quart oil system in an engine.  They say it should be added
> every 15k
> miles.
> > There's a report submitted by the Maryland DOT giving some
> results of a
> > study they did in which they sampled the oil before and
> after treating the
> > engine with Militec-1.  They cited a 63% reduction in iron particles
> > (measured in ppm), and the tin and copper reductions were
> both at least
> 70%
> > after treatment.  Seems to indicate that the engine block,
> rings, and
> > bearings were all wearing considerably less after treatment.
> >
> > They also recommend using it in transmissions - I wonder if it would
> > preserve synchros better.
> >
> > Aaron
> > '82 Scirocco
> > '70 Beetle
> > '87 Jeep Cherokee 4.0
> > '81 Honda CX500
> >
> >
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