Liquid crystal lubrication

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Thu 20 Nov 2008 11:59
Liquid crystal lubrication - bathtub tom
What do we think of this?

www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40132/113/
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Thu 20 Nov 2008 12:14
Liquid crystal lubrication - Chris S
I bet OPEC will buy the patent and then not use it - just to keep themselves in business.
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Thu 20 Nov 2008 12:17
Liquid crystal lubrication - oilrag
I think the advertising bods of a certain lubricant `manufacturer` will be wringing their hands.

Expect `solar wind engineered sub atomic fourth dimension magnetic triangles` - to appear on their oil adverts next week.
;)
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Thu 20 Nov 2008 12:50
Liquid crystal lubrication - madf
Captain Picard orders them regularly. Only with them installed can the suborbital discombobulator matrix infused with dilthium cyrstals attain enough energy to ramp up power in the warp power field force generator to enable subatomic space to be split, the time process reversed and the starship Enterprise to travel at Warp 9.

Edited by madf on 20/11/2008 at 12:50

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Thu 20 Nov 2008 12:52
Liquid crystal lubrication - Alanovich
How does the bloke in the delivery van ever manage to find or keep up with him?
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Thu 20 Nov 2008 12:58
Liquid crystal lubrication - oilrag
As well as the solar wind --magnetic triangles lubing the big ends, they also open up a wormhole to the destination for the delivery van. The worms are fed up of taking it though. They want a bypass.

Edited by oilrag on 20/11/2008 at 13:01

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Thu 20 Nov 2008 13:06
Liquid crystal lubrication - FotheringtonThomas
Obvious, it's a *white* delivery van. Next!
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Thu 20 Nov 2008 13:08
Liquid crystal lubrication - oilrag
Only Mobil 1 in the Continental Explorer... ;)

Edited by oilrag on 20/11/2008 at 13:08

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Thu 20 Nov 2008 14:04
Liquid crystal lubrication - Screwloose

So what's new? Ultra-low slide friction lubricants already exist; [MoS 2 etc.] - and they're absolutely the last thing that you want in a rolling bearing.

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Thu 20 Nov 2008 15:55
Liquid crystal lubrication - kithmo
No mention of what temperature these LC lubricants perform best or what happens when the temperature is increased.
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Fri 21 Nov 2008 10:13
Liquid crystal lubrication - davmal
I'm sure that many cyclists and motorcyclists will have realised that there is a naturally occuring substance that has almost perfect lubricant properties, reducing friction to near zero:

fresh cow muck on an iron manhole cover!
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