Question: There are so many oils on the market for my car. Which one should I use? I drive a new BMW and want the best oil I can get.
Answer: There are many brands of oil which would be suitable for a BMW and any other brand of car. Just because it is a BMW does not mean it is unique as far as the running gear and lubricants are concerned. This is how I choose oil. What does the car manufacturer advise as an acceptable grade? How many miles/hours does my engine have on it, and so on. If the oil should be a 10-30 WT, look for a 10-30 oil. Then look at the back of the container and you will see this mishmash of wording, automotive coding that governs service factors, and look for the key words: Diesel Engines. If the oil is certified for light diesels you have eliminated a good number of products on the shelf. Now look for the oils that are acceptable for all diesels and gas engines, all meaning big diesels, there will only be a handful on the shelf. You will discover these oils exceed all of your recommended specifications. Choose one of these oils.
Question: What is your favorite oil?
Answer: I test all of the oils and basically PAL oils are a blend. The bulk base oils we use come from Standard Oil and other major producers. I personally use Delo 400 30 WT with 2 ounces of Machine PAL and 1 ounce of Desert PAL per quart of engine oil. It is my own version of a multi-viscosity oil that is better than anything on the market today, at least in my opinion after field testing for a good number of years.
Question: Are you guys going to produce an automotive oil for the general market?
Answer: Not in the foreseeable future. Our oils are formulated for industrial and military applications, and are suitable for Marine use. They are concentrates of many oils, and can be used as a supplement which adds the multi-viscosty features some major brands lack. The major oil companies can license or buy what they need from us. We do not use Teflon or Polymers in our blending processes. After rigorous testing we have not found any long term advantages to these ingredients, in fact they can be very detrimental in the long run.
Question: Why don't the oil companies, including you PAL people, tell us exactly what is in your oil?
Answer: The oil industry is very interesting in this respect. Oils are recipes! They are protected by trade process secrets. One gallon of crude oil can create (87!) different oil substances. The number is read 87 factorial, which means (1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8x9...all the way to 87). Try this on your calculator, but do not be surprised if it runs out of memory... The factors involved are time, temperature and pressure, certain process chemicals and catalysts, and ingredients from the plant and animal kingdoms. Each process and ingredient adds another multiplication factor to 87 factorial... In short, it serves no purpose to list the processes for the general public, or anyone else for that matter. You are dealing with theory... To be realistic about it, we really do not even know what an atom is, nor everything it is composed of.
Question: I have been using your products for the last three or four years, and over a period of time I just become more amazed and confused. Why are the PAL products out performing all the other oils I have tried. (I have been around for 67 years and am a retired mechanic.) You told me at the King Dome to look at these oils as molecular bearing and sponges, and you had colored charts on the back drop to give me the idea. Now I see Pennzoil is saying the same thing about their improved oil, but your stuff is better for general lubrication purposes. What gives?
Answer: Evidently Pennzoil had access to our marketing material and decided they liked it. It is too bad Pennzoil is not passing your test, but then I do not use their oil myself because it never passed any of mine, either. Just for the record, I heard they produce a very good 5 WT oil, but I have never tried it yet. WD-40 and the low cost penetrating oils are scared to death of Lugbuster as well as Auto PAL, and Marine PAL far surpassed every penetrating oil on the world market for Marine use, including Croil. How are we able to do these things with PAL products? We know something the rest of the industry does not know, thanks to computer science. I am tickled to death you have come into the PAL corner. That makes all of our hard work worth while.
Question: I sprayed some aluminum down with Metal PAL and have been dipping it in salt water on and off for about four months now. I see corrosion starting. I only used one coat instead of two, because I want to possibly use the product for treating angle in a fast manufacturing process. Any suggestions?
Answer: Protective coatings all have one thing in common, and that is the end barrier thickness in mils. This is why paints say to double coat. Metal PAL is not a paint, but we suggest it be applied twice to make sure the right amount of protection is available. You have another factor to think about. If the aluminum is going to be immersed in or used around high humidity salt locations, such as that of Puget Sound, use a Marine alloy. Metal PAL was blended specially for the Navy, and is an offshoot of our PAL H.D. Equipment formula. If you need something heavier, contact the business off from the home page. (E-Mail paloff@seanet.com)
Question: Should I use an oil additive in my car? If so, which ones do you recommend? As a working mother just cannot afford a new car every three to five years. My car is a two year old Ford Taurus with 30,000 miles on it. Can you explain what the additives really do?
Answer: Specialty oils break down into basic categories consisting of treatments, supplements, and detergent additives. All have merit depending upon field conditions, a fact which is not brought up very often. Racing oils and supplements are not formulated in general for day to day transportation. Some cars are on their last legs and people just have to get a few more miles out of them due to economic reasons. Others are low mileage or new and the owner, like yourself, wants it to last. I have tested many of these products, and for the old clunk with worn valve guides and rings, Bardahl No Smoke is the best treatment/additive I have ever run across. For the newer vehicles, or Marine Engines, P$P Mc-200 oil conditioner has proven itself throughout the Marine Industry. Our Desert PAL is excellent for high temperature, heavy duty applications. For colder climates or small close tolerance engines, Machine PAL is absolutely excellent. I cannot recommend any Teflon or polymer based oils at this time. Bardahl Original Formula will give new detergency to old oil and extend time between changes, but the oil filter in all cases should be changed every three thousand miles. This is true for any supplement. Right now I am working on formulating around Valvoline at the request of one of the General Motors engineering staff. General Motors also recommended P$P for the EMD series of diesels, P$P can be found at Doc Freemans in Seattle, and the company headquarters is in San Diego. The Bardahl Corp. headquarters is in Seattle, Washington. Yes there are good additives on the market, and the nice part is the best ones are not that expensive.
Now about your car. It just so happens my wife Susan has a 1990 Ford Thunderbird that just turned 100,000 miles on it. It has the V-6 engine and the 4 speed automatic overdrive transmission. Now essentially the same vehicle, only a 1995 model, gets 26 miles per gallon on the open road, and 19 in town. Susan averages 23.6 driving back and forth to school where she teaches, and when we load the car and leave the coast of Washington, drive the I-5 corridor to the Seattle area and take I-90 over the Cascades into the Eastern Washington to the family ranch on the Teanaway River, we average slightly over 30 mpg. Just driving from the coast to the Bellevue area where the GLO Industries business office is located, we get 33 mpg. I am answering your call of yesterday and today is 3/10/96. The car just got out of the dealership in Aberdeen on 3/8/96 where we had a new fuel sensor put in, a new belt for the engine, the air conditioning system seals changed, and the fuel injectors flushed. The engine readings are the same as a new engine on the tune-up computer. Wear on the engine is negligible.
If you would like results on your Taurus to be the same as Susan's Thunderbird, this it what you must do. Use Delo 400 30 WT oil with two ounces of Machine PAL added per quart of engine oil, plus one ounce of Desert PAL per quart. It takes 5 qts of oil per change in your machine. The Machine PAL is a blend of special oils from 0-to 30 wt. The Desert PAL is a blend from 5-to 100 wt. This will give the proper ratio of oils for your engine. Just be sure to have your oil changed every 3000 miles or when your dash prompt come on. Make sure the filter is also changed. Try to stay away from oxygenated gasoline, as it causes more problems than it solves. At fifty thousand miles have the transmission and differential oil changed. Part of the secret of good gas mileage is your choice of tires and wheel balance/alignment. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE PAL OIL SYSTEM PRODUCT LABEL! TWICE AS MUCH IS NOT TWICE AS GOOD. 1/2 the amount is not enough. O.K?
Question: How often should I use Machine PAL on my sliding aluminum windows and kitchen drawers? I noticed my large sliding glass door seem to be losing their smoothness, and it has been a year since I used your product to oil them.
Answer: Windows once a year, sliding glass doors every six months if they are heavily used. Be sure to clean the dirt off the tracks. The dirt is the culprit. Kitchen drawers should be oiled every eighteen months. Locks about the same and car or truck door hinges every 18 to 24 months. In reality, once a year for these items is easy to do. Just pick a day and get out your bottle of Machine PAL. In an hour you will have taken care of the house and your travel trailer or RV vehicle while you are at it.
Question: I use your products and really like them. Are you people going to produce greases? I think you could really have a good market in greases.
Answer: Sorry! We have experimented with greases, but our process equipment is not set up for that portion of the industry. Bob Balcombe of Balcombes Reel & Rod Service uses our products to customize his special greases, and has some very good formulas he has developed. Bob writes for fishing & Hunting News and you may have read his regional reports. You can get a hold of Bob at 360/249/6282 and he just may have something to help you. One of the best greases I have ever personally used comes from Texas Refineries and is used on the drill rigs. The stuff will not flash and every chief engineer that has used it on the Seattle waterfront just loves it. It is a red colored substance. I do not remember the product number, but I think Texas Refineries is Houston based.
Question: I use your products on all my firearms, and I have a question about my black powder weapons. I cleaned them with Marine PAL and oil them down with Machine PAL the first time because Monte Square was out of Sports PAL. The next time Jim gave me a sample of the Sports PAL and I used it instead of Machine PAL. The barrel on the outside of my Hawkens seemed glossier, but was not oily to the touch. I do not use boiling water any more, and have discontinued my other products, because there has been no rust or corrosion with either the Sports or Machine PAL after using Marine PAL as a gun cleaner. When I went to Daves Gun Shop in Aberdeen and bought one of your kits, I asked him which one was truly right for black powder. One of the guys in there told me the Machine for plum finishes, and Sports for blued finishes. He also showed me the Reel PAL in the kit was going to be replaced with Slick PAL and your new labels were supposed to be up and running by April 1. Now I use the Reel PAL on the mechanisms and this Slick PAL makes me nervous. Is it just Reel PAL with a different label, or is it something else? Would you please comment on some of my questions and put the answers on the Web? Techline is my server and I am new to this, but I know some of the other guys that shoot black powder would be interested.
Answer: I guess the answer you got was as good as any from the gun shop. Sports PAL has the property of carrying powder residues better, but has less lubrication properties. It does turn microscopic rust pits black on blued weapons, stopping the rust and keeping the bluing in pristine condition. You may not want this action on plum finishes. Now for the question I just knew was going to come up. Yes Slick PAL will be replacing Reel PAL in the Shooters kits. It is a slightly different formula giving better all around results for firearms. This is how all of this came about... It started with the Navy Seals and their findings with the M-16. They like to use Reel PAL in the barrels because the barrels run cooler on fully automatic. I explained to all parties involved if they wanted an oil for that purpose, I could add a little more GLO oil to the Reel PAL, which raise the breakdown temperature even higher. The result is Slick PAL and all shooters are going to be extremely happy with this product. It is better than Reel PAL for firearm use.
Question: What does PAL stand for?
Answer: Penetrating and Lubricating
Question: I live in Seattle. Where can I get these products here?
Answer: Covich-Williams (Chevron Products in Ballard.) Doc Freemans in the Freemont district, as is Fisheries Supply, the people who own the Crows Nest Chain. In Renton, contact A. Lee Vaughn. E-Mail Lee at allee@wolfenet.com. We are assembling a list and will post it on this site soon. Fitzroy will be handling it in the Southern Cal/Arizona/Nevada area, Don Hill in the Missouri area, Glades Gunworks handles it in the Florida Area, Englund Marine in the Astoria and Coos Bay area, as well as Westport WA. and so on. The Spokane area also has the products floating around.
Question: Do you mail order over the web?
Answer: Not really, We are not in the mail order business. However we will send out orders if the office is E-Mailed until the people who are mailing are up and running. ANYONE ON THE WEB WHO IS MAIL ORDERING, CONTACT THE OFFICE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO SO. WE ARE A VERY REASONABLE COMPANY TO DEAL WITH, AND THIS IS A GROUND FLOOR OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN SALES...
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