Ken,
Thanks for the heads up about Mr. Bourque's patent. Never heard of calcium diflouride being used as a lubricant before. Worth checking out, one never knows.
Peter,
Graphite sounds good in the crankcase, anything to help those high load static starting forces is always good.
All,
Well, now too add another wrench into things I just stumbled upon Tungsten disulfide. It looks like it has about twice the high temperature range as that of the moly. Also about 1/3 the friction.
The tungsten powder looks to be about $30 per pound.
1,200 deg F in air for the tungsten powder and it still keeps it lubricity.
Upon further investigation I have discovered that the moly and tungsten is supposed to use the forces of the mating parts to deposit it on the surfaces. So there may not be any dposits on the boiler and condensor tubes. I don't know for sure or if it would matter anyway.
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