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pee type vehicle dipstick
this vehicle dipstick uses antibodies to detect microparticles of metal, or surplus carbon blobs, or type of carbon blob to diagnose the preferred engine preventative maintenance | |
I am aware that this is kind of a dipstick of an idea.
I think antibodies can be made to glom to metal microparticulates(grinding, thus different weight oil preferred). This might possibly also work on clumps of carbon (wrong fuel mix; maladjusted computer; running dirty)
Fleets of vehicles or
trucks could benfit from a once annual, cool oil dipstick test like a pee dipstick test.
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OK, so how do you propose to develop antibodies that work in oil? |
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Well, most oil pan drain plugs in my fleet of trucks are
already magnetised. When changing the oil the drain plug is
inspected for metal shavings which isn't a million miles
from
this idea. Contaminants to look for would be water and
coolants from the radiator system showing up in your oil
which indicate
leaking head gaskets. This is tantalisingly close to being a
practical real-with world idea [beany]. I don't know how to
react to that. |
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"Good news, Guv....Your car's pregnant!" |
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Is this one of Moya's transports? |
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Seriously though, wouldn't the symmetry be true. Looking,
with molecular tagging, for oil, metals in it's water. |
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Then again there's probably a whole lot of hydrophobic
molecular tagging systems rather than ?antibodies?. |
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With an EV there is just the battery water to test. With a Toyota Corolla oil, battery, radiator water, transmission fluid, and ash tray could be tested. |
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With an EV there could be mass spectroscopy of the air
around the motors. That or just a suped up fire alarm. |
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