Sig & Klotz oil additives

[bob whitney]

  while cleaning out the shop, i can across a full pt. of Sig LUBICIN N-I,or ! .also a qt. of KIOTZ  SPECIAL FORMULA   LUBRICANT  dose anyone have any information on either one of these ??

[RandySmith]

don't use more than 1 ounce per  gallon of fuel with the Lubricin, and do NOT use  it in castor fuels. It flecks  castor  very badly.

Randy

[bob whitney]

Randy, i believe it was used mainly in F2C in diesels which had all caster at that time .maybe the lack of nitro or methanol  was the diff

[RandySmith]

NO  it was made  for , and sold, for any model engine, but it doesn;t matter  it WILL  fleck castor in any fuel, diesel or not, and is way worse as it gets colder,
It is a cleaning detergent  additive mainly

Randy

[George]

I also have a can of LUBRICIN N-1. I figure if they don't make it anymore...there's a reason.

I think someone posted years ago that it rusted their engine. Makes sense. I f it's a detergent that it might remove the protective castor. That may have been before after-run oils came into use and perhaps they used too much.

George

[Brett Buck]

NO  it was made  for , and sold, for any model engine, but it doesn;t matter  it WILL  fleck castor in any fuel, diesel or not, and is way worse as it gets colder,
It is a cleaning detergent  additive mainly

  Side effects aside, it also doesn't seem to do anything useful, either! It certainly didn't do any useful cleaning that I could tell.

  edit- On further thought, I wonder if it contains xylene or something similar. The precipitate/flecks look an awful lot like the stuff that comes in Red Max castor oil and I attributed that to the xylene that I found when I had it analyzed. I assumed it was due to using xylene to extract more oil from the beans, but maybe some of Red Max's renown "oil experts" had the bright idea of spiking their supply with Lubricin - after which they had the flakes in the bottom forever after.

    Brett