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Re: Viscosity Interpretation.

To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>, Triumph List <triumphs@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Re: Viscosity Interpretation.
From: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:32:33 -0500
At 01:41 PM 2/21/99 -0800, Joe Curry wrote:
>Come on you guys (and gals).  I have been anxiously awaiting all the
>raspberries and flames over my posting this rather interesting but
>somewhat innocuous piece of useless information.
>
>Did this go completely over everybody's heads?  8^)

No, but I just had an uncontrollable urge to have a chocolate ice cream
sundae (Hershey's of course). Anything that thick _has_ to be satisfying!

 P.S. 'Centerpoise', that isn't one of them Metric things, is it?

Atwell "my brain is a cinder on Sundays"Haines
'79 Spit (all SAE except for the fittings on the [new] rear brake lines)



>Joe Curry wrote:
>> 
>> I ran across this little tidbit in one of my books.  I thought it might
>> provide a little "Light" reading for the list. Here goes:
>> 
>> Listing viscosities by centerpoise is sometimes confusing unless one is
>> thoroughly familiar with this particular system.  The following
>> practical interpretation will be of assistance.  The viscosity readings
>> are for mixed compounds.
>> 
>> The readings were taken at 25 degrees C with a Brookfield viscometer.
>> 
>>      1 CENTIPOISE (C.P)....WATER
>>   4000 CENTIPOISE (C.P)....#10 MOTOR OIL
>>  3,500 CENTIPOISE (C.P)....CASTOR OIL
>>  4,500 CENTIPOISE (C.P)....KARO SYRUP
>> 25,000 CENTIPOISE (C.P)....HERSHEY CHOC. SYRUP
>> 
>>              OIL VISCOSITY
>>  _________________________________________
>> |         |   Saybolt Universal Seconds   |
>> |         |_______________________________|
>> |  SAE    |    130 o F    |    210 o F    |
>> |         | Min.  |  Max. |  Min. |  Max. |
>> |_________|_______|_______|_______|_______|
>> |   10    |   90  |  120  |       |       |
>> |   20    |  120  |  185  |       |       |
>> |   30    |  185  |  255  |       |       |
>> |   40    |  255  |       |       |   80  |
>> |   50    |       |       |   80  |  105  |
>> |   60    |       |       |  105  |  125  |
>> |   70    |       |       |  125  |  150  |
>> |_________|_______|_______|_______|_______|
>> 
>> Happy reading,
>> Joe
>> 
>> --
>> "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
>>  -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
>
>-- 
>"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
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>

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