jawnn
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Long chain molecule oil?
Does any one know how to make Long chain molecule oil?
I want it for my bicycle. I commute quite a bit and most bicycle chain oil does not lost more than a week or two.
I need something that will stay in the chain.
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Have you considered petroleum jelly?
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A "longer chain of oil" would be a tar, or a wax, and wax is what's in T9:
I like this stuff- http://www.google.com/shopping/product/5414757071124778612?l...
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Mix your chain oil with STP, available everywhere automotive products are sold.
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T9 is a rip off as most chain oils are. the only one I would pay money for the Chin-L but even that most be re-lubed after riding in the rain.
I can say exactly how they make it, but it is additive. At first I though of cooking it to thicken it up. But I know nothing about chemistry.
What makes the molecules adhere to them selves.
Does STP actual work?
[Edited on 12-1-2015 by jawnn]
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Try Lucus. It's like honey oil. Sticks like honey too.
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what is STP made of? is it just aluminum powder in oil? that's not what I want.
It is a secret formula to make longer chain oil?
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Actually MAKING a long chain oil would be highly impractical, really. I'd guess if you were to start with a long chain alkene, with a double bond in
the end... React it with water, then oxidize it all the way to carboxylic acid... you'd get a long chain fatty acid. React 3 moles of this with 1 mole
of glycerol, you'd have your oil.
Easier said than done, however.
I'd suggest buying something as opposed to making it.
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I discovered that i had the secret ingredient in my paint making supplys. aluminum hydroxide or stearate.
Then I went to the car parts and found that STP oil treatment uses Zinc Dialkyl Dithiophosphate (ZDDP) as an anti-wear agent that also works like the
aluminum hydroxide powder.
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