Rogue-AE95 wrote:I was wondering what happened. I was hoping there would be more info posted to back up what he was saying.
Had he provided anything that supported his claims even a little bit this would have turned out a lot different.
Or had he even posed his ideas as theories or possibilities instead of facts with nothing to support them.
It started looking obvious to me that he didn't care about educating, technological progress or scientific method and that his goal was to create conflict.
I told him that if he didn't want to support his claims with anything substantial that I would assume he was a troll just trying to get a rise out of people and that I had no problem banning trolls.
His next post he came after me asking for my credentials. I have no problem showing my qualifications on a subject or even admitting where I don't know as much but in this case I had spent my last several posts just trying to get them to provide something that backed their theory or at least pose their ideas as theory. Therefore the only credentials I felt applicable were those as a mod trying to keep this as a place of intelligent discussion and scientific method.
It would be very interesting to know more about the stock pistons. I would love to know the exact manufacturing process, forming process, and coating process.
One thing I thought of is that there may be a simple test that could tell a little bit. There are chemicals and processes that can remove an anodized surface.
It may be possible to try some of these things on the coating. If it doesn't dissolve the coating then you would know for sure it wasn't just anodized. Unfortunately if it did dissolve the surface you couldn't know it wasn't another coating as that coating may also be soluble by the process.
I also expect it should be pretty easy to tell anodizing from most coatings just with a good microscope. But again that is if it was just anodized. Very rarely is this the case. Whenever it looks like anything other than dull aluminum it's because it has been dyed. After the dye they apply a clear coating to protect the dye. If you were to go to such extents with something like a piston why not make that coating something like a ceramic that will do more than make it look shiny?
If anyone wants to do this I would love to see the results. I just don't care enough to spend my time on it myself.
Meanwhile I'll be testing the real world limits of my stock BT pistons and if I find those limits I'll slap in a set of CP or Arias pistons because I do believe they are better.
