Hey Guys!

I often times see oil debates in here and thought you might find the following a bit interesting.

First off, this isn't meant to say that I think Royal Purple is better than Mobil 1 or anything of that nature... just some hard core data about Royal Purple.

I work at a large power plant. We have upgraded the output of the plant and we are now seeing some equipment running a bit warm. In an effort to prevent spending millions of dollars on upgrading our cooling systems, another Operator has been researching the use of synthetic oil in place of our "standard" conventional oil. In this research, he has talked with Engineers at a few other large power plants. The info thus far has been pretty interesting! Keep in mind... this info is not coming from Royal Purple vendors but rather Engineers at plants who have no interest in promoting Royal Purple products to us.

Anyway, one plant has been using Royal Purple products for the past 14 years! This plant first tried Royal Purple (grease) in a single pump they were having trouble with. The bearings in this pump were failing at a rate of one every three months. Royal Purple grease was tried and the bearing temperature dropped 40 degrees F. The motor ran with that set of bearings for the next 10 years. The motor was then inspected and cleaned and the bearings replaced as a preventative measure. The new bearings have been installed for nearly 5 years now with no issues.

At another plant Royal Purple oil was used in a very large pump/motor. New pumps were installed in 1995 using the old motors. Nobody knew that the new pumps had a 28,000 lb starting down thrust and the motors were only rated at a 12,000 lb down thrust. Well, needless to say, the motor ran very hot! To try and keep the motors in service, they switched to Royal Purple. The temperature dropped from 220 degrees to 180 degrees and the motors have been fine.

Those are a couple examples for anyone interested. I thought instead of reading magazine articles about this, some of you might like hearing about real world, no bs, results.

Now, with all that being said, I have no idea how much better (if any) Royal Purple is than any other synthetic. I think it just proves that synthetic oil is in fact much better than conventional oil. It would be interesting to see the results in the same examples above if Mobil 1 were used but that ain't going to happen

I am convinced enough, however, that I'll be running Royal Purple in my new engine when (if ever) I get it built. LOL!

We are still trying to talk our engineers into switching and if they do, I'll post the results we find. I'm sure it'll be not difficult to get them to switch in some of our pumps/motors but to switch the oil in our turbine (our main temperature concern right now) will take around 25,000 gallons. I wonder if I ordered 25,000 gallons of Royal Purple if I could get a group purchase discount? LOL!

If nobody else gets anything out of this, maybe at least patman will. hahahahahaa

 

well i've learned something!



STAY THE HELL OUT OF FLORIDA!
As if it wasn't bad enough that Brent (of all people) is playing Homer Simpson- the motors are an oil change away from overheating as well


not to mention they are over 2x their weight limit

thanks brent

ps-
you know who left me me voice mail telling me to call him

 

welll thats nice to know..........out of sheer coincedence i just bought 5 quarts of royal purple the other day to change my oil and give it a shot.

i had been using shell rotella-T 15w40 until someone pointed out that is probably too harsh detergent wise for my engine. although i havent had one single oil related problem in 17k since using it. but better to be safe than sorry.

ill give the royal purple 10w30 a shot.

 

LOL! No, no, Trey... those were not examples at MY plant so no worries. I think they might have been located in your home town though Actually, I don't even know if they were nuke plants??? Even if they were, the pumps being talked about would not be pumps needed for plant safety

On the side note, if you call him, have him call me please... I've seen nothing. Thanks!

 

Which plant uses Royal Purple? I might know someone there who would know about this. We'd be a pretty good customer just for our Diesel Generators at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station. They hold 450 gallons of lube oil.

 

Is Royal Purple available in a 10W40 or a 15W40?

 

at my local napa store they had all of the above.....$5 per quart

check the royal purple website for a complete listing tho.

 

nah, they built a nuclear plant in my hometown but they cant use it because they forgot to get safety clearance for it. apparently it violates every code in the book so a 7 billion dollar nuclear power plant is just sitting there
apparently you CANT get 6 million people off an island with only 3 bridges (all of which go through NYC) within a few hours notice who woulda known!


ohh yea, did i mention they jacked up our rates to pay for it ?
using a nightlight is a $50/month luxery









Ohh God how I miss long island

 

This reminds me and I'll bring up something else... we don't "change" our 20,000 gallon plus turbine lube oil system. We constantly filter it. This oil gets used for 2 years straight (24 hours a day 7 days a week) then gets put through a centrifuge and used another 2 years and so on. Basically, just pointing out that oil doesn't get old or go bad... it gets contaminated. Now, if we could find a GOOD way to filter and purify our oil, we'd only have to buy this $5 a quart stuff ONCE during the life of the car

I have a feeling though that a system like this would cost more than just spending $25 every few thousand miles or so!

 

Another Operator is doing the research and I only got the basic details from him so not sure which plants in particular he has talked to.

Sounds like those diesels are about like ours. We just did some maintenance on one of our diesels which required pumping the oil out... took nine 55 gallon drums... pretty close to 450 gallons Will definitely have to look into some Royal Purple in these suckers... might get a few more hp out of them! hahaha

 

Sounds good!

I'll check some local shops for possible retailers.

 

just dumped in some today..........engine seems to idle quieter.


btw.....my engine took almost 5 quarts to fill up...........i read other people only need 4..........wtf.

 

I worked last summer specifying lubricants with a mechanical design group. As i was updating our specifications from mobil products to shell products due to a new global pricing contract I was surprised to see royal purple specified. When i inquired i was told i couldn't change it. Apparently the royal purple was the only oil that could keep this piece of equipment in service. Without getting into too much detail, it was a roots type blower designed for specific gas service. I would probably use it in my car except it's such a hassle to get and mobil 1 is good enough for me.

 

I use 5.5 quarts of oil