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What Does The Color of Your Oil Mean?

Over time, the quality, consistency, and color tend to change on your oil-based lubricants this is because of many factors that directly “age” your oil. As a rule of thumb, color does not dictate the efficiency of oil. The color will change for a variety of reasons from heat, additives, and contaminants to something as…

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Octane Ratings Explained

What Is Octane? Octane is a flammable hydrocarbon of the alkane series, obtained in petroleum refining. That’s a long way of saying a higher octane rating means a higher explosion point. That also means you want more of it for your combustible engine. Octane numbers tend to change as additives improve and the quality of oil refining increases. One way to track the type…

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How to Store Your Lubricants Like a Pro

How to Properly Store Your Lubricants Maintaining the quality of your oils, greases, and other lubricants is important to the longevity of your vehicle or machine. What Happens to Lubes if They Aren’t Stored Correctly? Contaminates, Gelation and exposure will ruin any store of lubricants, so are you doing all you can to combat them?…

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Beware of This Commonly Used Hacker Trick

How often do you find yourself using your debit card, your credit card, or any other form of plastic currency? Credit card companies are constantly renewing and improving their encryptions and safety measures in order to maintain your information’s safety; however, the less savory folk in our society are always developing new insidious ways to…

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Is The Cold Shrinking Your Fuel?

It’s cold outside! Winter is in full swing and spring is not looking to warm up. A remarkable phenomenon occurs when the temperature drops in liquids. Fluids condense and shrink in volume when the temperature is cold. Interestingly, the volume of fuel and gas drops as well, the same is true for the opposite. What…

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5 Diesel Fuel Facts You Should Know

Diesel fuel is an interesting compound that acts very differently from gasoline outside of its difference in combustion within a chamber. Its properties have very interesting effects and applications that many do not know. Today we will explore 5 interesting facts that everyone should know about diesel fuel. 1. Diesel fuel has a very low…