Teflon (PTFE) oil additives
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Most of the readily available ones are scams, there are a few good ones out there none containing PTFE though.
If you search the Web you will find a press statement by 3M about how Teflon is not good for many of the things it is used for. They saw it coming when they began selling licensing rights. Not sure if it specifically mentions liquid lubrication but does go into how it has to be heated to over 600F to bond to anything. That means pretty much anything on a store shelf that contains it, is using it as marketing and is of no real value.
Believe the FTC judgement against Slick50 would be good reading on the subject too.
If you search the Web you will find a press statement by 3M about how Teflon is not good for many of the things it is used for. They saw it coming when they began selling licensing rights. Not sure if it specifically mentions liquid lubrication but does go into how it has to be heated to over 600F to bond to anything. That means pretty much anything on a store shelf that contains it, is using it as marketing and is of no real value.
Believe the FTC judgement against Slick50 would be good reading on the subject too.
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I mean that to a person that is not expert in this matter it seems that everybody could be right and wrong at the same time because from one side there are claims from the manufacturers of those additives actually works and on the other side I find only the same article over and over stating that additives are really crap. None of them is actually linking any official source of their claims.
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Are you staying up late tonight? 
Yeah, that would be the idea, but I was only trying to get a better overview about them: if there is something unclear I get really curious... I can't help it
Yeah, that would be the idea, but I was only trying to get a better overview about them: if there is something unclear I get really curious... I can't help it
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I have done some searches in google and I always found pages stating the same exact words as the above link.
I mean that to a person that is not expert in this matter it seems that everybody could be right and wrong at the same time because from one side there are claims from the manufacturers of those additives actually works and on the other side I find only the same article over and over stating that additives are really crap. None of them is actually linking any official source of their claims.
I mean that to a person that is not expert in this matter it seems that everybody could be right and wrong at the same time because from one side there are claims from the manufacturers of those additives actually works and on the other side I find only the same article over and over stating that additives are really crap. None of them is actually linking any official source of their claims.
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