nano-lubricant could mean no more oil changes

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[ddtorque]

Imagine buying a new car and driving it for 10 years without once taking it for an oil-and-lube job. The engine won't even have a dipstick to check the oil. That's what the future holds if Rehovot-based ApNano Materials succeeds in marketing NanoLub.

NanoLub is the world's first synthetic lubricant to be based on spherical inorganic nanoparticles. As with other lubricants, its job is to reduce wear and friction between moving objects (like engine parts), enabling longer operation and higher efficiency. NanoLub dramatically outperforms every known commercial solid lubricant marketed today.

As its creator, ApNano Materials has just been selected by the US investing journal Red Herring as one of the top 100 innovators that will drive global markets in 2005.

[secretagent]

OK, just as long as it doesn't self-replicate.

[Age of Reason]

With all the idiotic, useless accessories and "luxuries" they've been putting in cars the last few decades--why the heck doesn't someone invent a car with oil that easy and not messy for the average car owner to change himself?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Cool. Maybe those kids at Jiffy Lube can quit trying to sell me "PVC filters" and find something useful to do with their time.

[commonguymd]

I doubt it will end the need for an oil change. Oil does break down, but it also accumulates debris - thus a filter.

But, then again, it must be said that every new automotive invention creates a buzz about impact on the future service requirements of vehicles. A great portion of a new car dealer's bottom line comes from the service and repair profit center. They won't be jumping to minimize the opportunity to get the car on the lift - so to speak.

Don't hold onto your hat.

Hence, comes the 21st century tune-up, the flash and flush. Flash - being updating of the onboard brain (have the dealer check your new car's trouble request fixes) and the flush being the flushing of vital fluids - transmission, power steering, brake, and engine fluids.

[The Teen Conservative]

Woopie...

[Nateman]

Oil also takes away engine by products and grime, in short it cleans it. You will still have to change the oil.

[mikrofon]

Now they can start a whole new chain of "NanoLube"
shops, with Robin Williams as their pitch man...

[keithtoo]

What happens if the car overheats???? Overheating can seriously damage the viscosity of standard motor oil, and I'll bet the same would apply here.

Remember 'no-maintenance' batteries? They never existed, and they never will.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Is this product also applicable to women?

[snarks_when_bored]

Now there's an idea. Let's put nano-sized inorganic spheres into every car engine in the world, so that the exhaust pipes of every car engine in the world spew these micro-spheres out into the air we breathe.

Yeah, there's an idea.

[biggerten]

PVC filters. Poly Vinyl Chloride filters?

My car uses PCV filters for Positive Crankcase Ventilation.

But, somehow, I think you knew that and are poking fun at the pimple faced would be salesmen. Ooops, should have said salespeople.

[commonguymd]

The dealer wants the vehicle on his lift. Opportunity. No way they make things simple.

[keithtoo]

You do legitimately have to change your "PCV" and EGR valves periodically. They serve a legitimate function. When they are clean, they let your engine 'breathe'. Your engine is like you - if it can't breathe well, it can't perform well.

[Pete'sWife]

There's something on the market here in the NY Metro are called "Motor Silk." Supposedly, it's a one-time oil additive that increases gas mileage.

Has anyone else heard of this?

I didn't fall for Slick-50, or any of the chlorinated or teflon oil additives. I change my oil and filter every 3,000 miles, and have done so for as long as I've owned automobiles.

Every one of them has lasted 100,000+ miles, and many of them have gone over 200,000.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

[1FreeAmerican]

Some guy's in SoCal(iirc) began using toilet paper for oil filters. They wound the paper twice as tightly as it wound on the roll and used that as the filter. They used regular 30wt oil and they were getting 100,000 miles of use.

[1FreeAmerican]

Some guy's in SoCal(iirc) began using toilet paper for oil filters. They wound the paper twice as tightly as it wound on the roll and used that as the filter. They used regular 30wt oil and they were getting 100,000 miles of use.

[garyhope]

Why not just use my ex wife's meat loaf?

How greasy was it?

It was so greasy,......that,.....

[CzarNicky]

They should invent nano gasoline so that I wouldn't have to fill up.

[commonguymd]

You have got to be kidding.