New chain lube technology looks promising ?

Marcus Coles said:

A better wax substitute?
I wonder what a quart will be worth?

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-08/acs-hd081604.php

Marcus

Too weak. The Hertzian pressures common to chains would rapidly destroy it. Contact pressures in hard drives are low and speeds are high. In the chain, contact pressures are high and speeds are low.

Weisse Luft said:

Marcus Coles said:

A better wax substitute?
I wonder what a quart will be worth?

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-08/acs-hd081604.php

Marcus

Too weak. The Hertzian pressures common to chains would rapidly
destroy it. Contact pressures in hard drives are low and speeds are
high. In the chain, contact pressures are high and speeds are low.

There is no question that the applications are vastly different, but
there are properties of the material which might make it a suitable for
the chain application such as Corrosion resistance and surface bond
strength

To quote the article:

"Indeed, the Illinois team believes their invention may have far broader
application, such as the mining industry, for example, or metals
manufacturing; perhaps even automobile engines. "Any place where there
are wear surfaces," says Economy."

Without technical specs it is obviously impossible to comment with any
authority on the material as a chain lubricant but it is to me not
inconceivable that it may be an improvement over wax based lubes.

Marcus

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:57:53 -0400, Marcus Coles <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

To quote the article:

"Indeed, the Illinois team believes their invention may have far broader
application, such as the mining industry, for example, or metals
manufacturing; perhaps even automobile engines. "Any place where there
are wear surfaces," says Economy."

Without technical specs it is obviously impossible to comment with any
authority on the material as a chain lubricant but it is to me not
inconceivable that it may be an improvement over wax based lubes.

Similar statements were made about Teflon in internal DuPont memoranda
in the 1940s. Later research proved them overoptimistic. Until the
tech has been tested and proven useful, it should be regarded as
exactly what it is: *unproven*.

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