[TheForge] Re: Trip Hammer Advice

[Jerry Frost]

Slick 50's still around and probably changed some. It 
had a problem originally as it contained teflon solids 
in suspension and the solids coated your engine. Then 
if you overheated the engine by much the teflon would 
peal loose and clog the oil ports, and such. The only 
way to clean it up was to totally strip the engine down 
and physically remove it. Any left would come loose 
later and migrate till it plugged something. . . In the 
worse possible place of course, ala Murphy.

Slick-50 also needs to bond to metal, the solids settle 
out in the bottle so you have to mix it thoroughly 
before putting it in your engine and then you have to 
run your engine for half an hour or so after it warms 
up. At least that's how it was last time I bought a 
bottle but that was probably 25-30 years ago and I'd be 
surprised if it still worked that way.

Last I looked you could still get moly lubes and such 
which are good for things needing grease or other 
relatively dry lubes. I like the Duralube treatment 
where lubricant is pumped or needs to flow. I put a 
tbsp in the 30wt. I use in my old Lancaster blower as 
well.

Frosty
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From: "Ron Childers" <munlaw2 at hcsmail.com>



> Is "Slick 50" still around? You could run a lawn 
> mower with no oil after a
> treatment with that stuff. Ron C
>