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Subject:Re: gov't sure fire way to destroy an engine Re: about oil additives
From:Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Date:Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:25:05 -0700

could you imagine being a tech at a car dealership and intentionally running
an engine until it's ruined like this ?
They make it sound so clinical too.
'if the engine still will start, repeat steps 3 through 6' or whatever it
was.
until you are sure the specimen is truly and finally dead.
sicko.

makes me think of stupid things like a condemmed prisoner needing to be in
decent health before they will electrocute them.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: gov't sure fire way to destroy an engine Re: about oil
additives

> Good grief.
>
> "LOL. Anytime a wiki is cited as an authority, the argument has been
> lost."
> - Mike S
>
> : /
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Mike S
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:33 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: gov't sure fire way to destroy an engine Re: about oil
> additives
>
> At 04:33 AM 7/28/2009, Andrew Grebneff wrote...
>>Sodium silicate is not "liquid glass". Glass is supercooled liquid
>>silicon dioxide.
>
> "Sodium silicate is the common name for a compound sodium metasilicate,
> Na2SiO3, also known as water glass or liquid glass." -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_silicate