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Hello Ozcub,

You pose some interesting questions.

I take the dash to mean from 10 "to" 30 viscosity, ranging from cold to hot.

Lake Speed Jr. has a site called the Oil Geek and I am sure you can find much more in-depth answers about oils there.

 

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Hello Ozcub,

You pose some interesting questions.

I take the dash to mean from 10 "to" 30 viscosity, ranging from cold to hot.

Lake Speed Jr. has a site called the Oil Geek and I am sure you can find much more in-depth answers about oils there.

No , I am good with your answer , Thank you anyway
 

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Had a salesman describe it like this one time. Said it was like the principal of Spaghetti when it is cold and dry the additive to make the higher viscosity shrinks like spaghetti when it cold and dry. Heat it up and it expands like spaghetti when you add water and heat it up. Who knows
 

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Hi StarTech,

Heck! When did the battle ever stop?

I've seen a lot of equipment run hard and abused by owners who bragged about how good their oil is. What they are really saying is they "got away with it" because the machine has not blown up yet.

Oil technology has come a long in the past 40 years and with that has come "extended mileage" intervals and "high mileage" oils.

In a rider or a push mower, many consider this a "lifetime" oil product, so they don't have to perform maintenance.

Even Briggs and Stratton has done away with the oil drain plug on many of their small single cylinder engines. This sends the wrong message to customers.
 

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With some equipment engines even with oil drain plugs they are inaccessible. Since I got my pneumatic oil extractor I rarely even look for a drain plug. What initially got me to switch over was those one MTD tillers.

When a customer one of these no change engines I still recommend regular oil changes. I do oil changes labor free as long as the customer buys the oil and filter from my shop. Just plain good customer relations. Even back in the 70s when I work at a full service gas station, I know they don't exist around here anymore, we did oil changes this way.
 
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