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Originally Posted by rks The oil companies are rich and spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year on research. If it is a simple matter of adding carrom powder to engine oil and reaping huge benefits, the oil companies would have done so and paid the royalty for the patent -- the benefits accrued would far outweigh the royalty. The patent was issued in the 90's. It appears that the oil companies and a whole lot of others are still developing and testing this technology. Why do you think their approach is so slow, cautious and methodical? Why didn't they just rush out and add carrom powder to engine oil and come to conclusions after a 1500 kms test, like you seem inclined to do? And as someone pointed out, carrom powder may not have the fineness required for the suspension to pass through oil filters and other narrow passages. And I have serious doubts about a product made for carrom board having the necessary purity to be added to engine oil. |
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Indeed they spend millions on research but since this product is very new....and also in evauation phase for many companies.....any new technique which has such capability passes through vigourous tests before commercial launch and this takes time......also carrom board powder is never intended to be used with carrom...its a pharma product to be used for medicinal purpose but then using it in carrom it another subject.My addition of carrom powder is the easy availability of it over the counter....may be they using specially prepared powder to be used in oil but we cant find it easily.... I dont remember any powder manufacturer manufacturing especially for carrom......also to adopt\use the patented technology is the commercial apsect & they proceed only when tested & proven....so only time will tell that how many adopts this.....this experiment was done just to test the beneficial effect of boric acid lubricant......in no way oil companies come into picture........I advise u to find the best available lubricant fullfilling all requirement and compare it with boron treated lubricant........
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