The Silicone Oil Converter

[aaron_]

I guess you may have experienced the following situation: You just borrowed or looked for a new setup-sheet, and all shock oil measurements are in "wt", but your pit box only contains bottles with "cps" brandings... or just the other way round

So how can you convert those numbers? There are lot's of cps-wt tables on the web, but most of them are very inaccurate to the decimal place only, and all of them top out at around 800cps/60wt (not too good for those with the "smelly things" )

I recently wrote a tool to cope with such situations. It accurately converts cps to wt and wt to cps to eliminate the guesswork - have a look at it here:



Silicone Oil Converter

[Northy]

Is that where you got your figures from? There are a lot of generalisations in there.

When I measured AE and Losi oil the relationship was as close to linear as you can expect for something that is mass produced. It was also done in a temperture controlled room using calibrated equipment calibrated to traceble standards.

And MY figures do not agree with yours!

G

[bretts]

so how different are Losi and AE oils?

[Lee Martin]

around 5wt aint they?

[millzy]

losi is 5wt more than ae if i remeber

[aaron_]

Northy, you do not compare associated to losi shock oil with this converter!
You can compare the "cps/cst" Value some manufactorers give, to the "wt" rating that some other manufactorers state.
I've been told that Associated recently marks cps and wt readings - but I haven't seen one of these new bottles yet, so I can't comment on that.

Based upon TWF8's measurements of different manufactorer's oils (see the link), I came to the conclusion that accuracy, the converter gives is sufficient, since the "real" viscosity may be anywhere between +/- 2,5wt, not even considering temperature.

[Northy]

So who's 'wt' does your convertor convert cp to?

G