Nikasil
Nikasil is a trademarked electrodeposited lipophilic nickel matrix silicon carbide coating for engine components, mainly piston engine cylinder liners.
Development
Nikasil was introduced by Mahle in 1967, initially developed to allow rotary engine apex seals (NSU Ro 80, Citroën GS Birotor and Mercedes C111) to work directly against the aluminium housing. This coating allowed aluminium cylinders and pistons to work directly against each other with low wear and friction. Unlike other methods, including cast iron cylinder liners, Nikasil allowed very large cylinder bores with tight tolerances and thus allowed existing engine designs to be expanded easily. The aluminium cylinders also gave a much better heat conductivity than cast iron liners, an important attribute for a high-output engine. The coating was further developed by US Chrome Corporation in the United States in the early 1990s (under the trade name of "Nicom"), as a replacement for hard-chrome plated cylinder bores for Mercury Marine Racing, Kohler Engines, and as a repair replacement for factory-chromed snowmobiles, dirt bikes, ATVs, watercraft and automotive V8 liners/bores.
Podcasts:
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by Luxt
Noxxul
by: LuxtLeave it bleeding with all your lies.
The dirty little souls keep repeating the same old fucked,
up limits of such deep bullshit.
All poor-me with wide wet eyes.
You must have lives to spare in wasted time to sit and beg.
Just like the dog you are.
All I've got is spit for charity exactly what I see within your stare.
Under a spirit to search and whack about,
my inner sanctum's what i can bring to be.
So in creation, not by default, that same old vicious womb-web spun can't be.
Anything compared to what we choose to bring about in will to push the bone.
This far so will it break we'll see, but till it does oh Christ, keep fucking me!
I drink in life so deep to get fucked up.
To feel the boundaries crack beneath my fist.
Just when my energy is spent, I'm thrusting deeper ripping to the wrist.
All this revolving, spinning in my eyes, no time for sadness interrupting flow.
There's so much to learn to taste to know only through our fuck-ups are we wise.
So sit at home and watch the world behind your box of sweetened processed death.
And hide away your soul from risk and pain. Never join the living, join the flesh.
The biggest lie is what you think you know, but never can you find a single fact.
Study religion far to find the truth but in the truth you find religion lacks.
So ever faithful to what I can't quite explain but there lies what I call belief.