By Jim Fitch
Practicing Oil Analysis Magazine
I suppose we could refer to used oil, when put under the lens of a microscope, as a book waiting to be read. It is loaded with revealing bits of information that tells a pictorial story about the condition of the machine and the oil. Still, for most people, the story cannot be read or understood. To them, the language of oil analysis is foreign and seems complicated.
It is true that literacy in oil analysis doesn’t enter the mind as an overnight sensation. It takes time, a process not dissimilar to osmosis. Yet at the same time, oil analysis knowledge and technology races forward like a train, gaining speed on each turn. So too, it seems, the more we discover and learn about the topic the more we become aware of all that we don’t yet know. Add this to the belief that knowledge is said to double every four years and, well, one might choose another pursuit.