too much Power Service == Busted Engine??

[Builder]

Like I said before, the thing I like about Howes is that it's sold where TRUCKERS, FARMERS, Excavators buy additives. I notice the P. Service seems to be popular in the auto parts box stores.

 

[Mundy]

John Bud,

Your missing part of the chemistry.
Every solution is made up of a Solvent and Solute. "A solution is a homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances. In such a mixture, a solute is dissolved in another substance, known as a solvent."

The additive could be the solute and the diesel could be the solvent.

I think the Lucus is a good example of this. The lucus and diesel do not just sit as two layers. I think the diesel is the solvent in this case and the lucus is dissolved into the diesel to form a lucus treated diesel solution. The Lucus is the solute not the solvent.

I do not know anything about Howes but I think what Frank Miller is getting at is just because they dissolve into a solution does not make them both solvents.

 

[JerryG]

Like I said before, the thing I like about Howes is that it's sold where TRUCKERS, FARMERS, Excavators buy additives. I notice the P. Service seems to be popular in the auto parts box stores.

Must be a regional thing. PowerService is what the truck stops carry for a few hundred mile radius of here. I've seen a small bottle of Howes in one truck stop.

 

[john_bud]

Mundy,

Good point, but add 3 drops of diesel to the additive - what happens? Add 3 drops of the additive to the diesel - what happens? If they both form a uniform solution - they are both mutually soluble in each other. This is the common situation with liquids that are soluble in each other, especially when they are miscible at all concentrations.

Solute and solvent are more appropriately used when liquid solvents are being discussed with solid solutes. Salt is soluble in water, but not in oil. Styrofoam is soluble in acetone but not in water. It makes much less sense to discuss ethanol as a solvent with methanol as the solute. They are both miscible in each other.


tsterkle - Sorry for the OT posts - have you gotten any more information on the engine damage?

jb