As an aside, in high school I had a 48 Ford with a flat head V 8. I wanted to
treat it good so instead of using regular 30 weight I used a nice detergent
10-30. The detergent cleaned the gunk out of the bearings and engine pretty
much fell apart, blowing out so much oil that a could not see
Gosh, I haven't heard Scott-Atwater in decades. My Dad bought an old used
Elgin 5 hp outboard in the 50's. We would rent a skiff from a marina in
Big Lagoon near Pensacola, attach the Elgin and go fish near Fort Pickens.
I sail Touche' near Fort Pickens nearly every week and was just in Big
Sort of like a big laxative I guess. Cleaned out!!
On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 8:45 PM Dennis C. via CnC-List
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> Gosh, I haven't heard Scott-Atwater in decades. My Dad bought an old used
> Elgin 5 hp outboard in the 50's. We would rent a skiff from a marina in
> Big Lagoon near Pensacola,
As a further aside, I bought an old Scott-Atwater 20 HP motor from an
auction, when I was 13 or 14 years old. I put it on my 12' plywood
runabout but it was unreliable due to poor compressor. Stories and
folk lore of the day led us to belive that Bon-Ami (a cleaning
powder) could restore an
It’s all about the hydrodynamic film thickness provided by the oil. As long
as that film is thicker than the major dimension of any asperities like
surface roughness or oil borne particles that get trapped between the
contacting surfaces then all is well from an accelerated abnormal wear
point of
