Yes, though I'd probably watch even if he did just shove things into an engine, personally. I love watching people throw things into machines that aren't supposed to go there just to see what happens. Pretty awesome that he goes through all of the testing and everything beforehand though.
@@mymorristribe "Which oil should I use? Amazon Basics? Super Tech? Amsoil?" PF: "Oh, I've got great videos on there that you can use to compare their merits, but have you ever considered...BANANAS?"
@@konstantinoscrete2963 dont act like an idiot. It's a joke and fyi nobody thinks you're interesting cause you act like the typical social stunted genius on TV
I am now 80 years old and have personally seen Bannan peals used to stop an engine rod knock, used as rod bearings to boot, these have lasted for nearly two hours under an oil pressure feed system in automobiles on trade-ins'. Granted this was back there when I was in high school and shortly in my very early twenties when worked for a Used car lot dealer. This is a real and fully truthful statement.
My dad used strips of leather soaked in oil as rod bearings. I'm talking about in the 1940s when it was easy to drop the oil pan and get access to the crankshaft
Test the best food grade oil as engine oil. Examples: olive, coconut, canola, soybean, avocado, peanut, sunflower, palm (please purchase sustainably farmed), etc.
Hey it was running at the 30 minute mark. It might make you home. I think having a gear-driven oil pump versus a splash oiling type system probably would make a big difference as well as the engine probably had some amount of oil in it as well.
Busted? That engine ran for 30mins even after seizing. I bet you could get a lot more run time if you had a constant/regulated flow of water. Maybe even enough time to make it back to base camp.
@@ericrundgren7257 any time you do a transmission for a buddy on his garage floor because the boss won't let you do it on the shops hoist. Lol cherry bomb by zep works the best and u come out smelling like cherry
I feel like this could be a sci-fi movie where fusion cores are run off the potassium of bananas. "Captain, banana levels are full, we have warp core available"
@@jmanthackdaddy Bananas are mildly radioactive as I recall. So artificially forming a high decay, high energy isotope of potassium in a reactor may be possible. Could you imagine a radioactive pile of glowing Bananas! That would be hilarious!
I'm a retired firefighter and over the course of my career I have pretty much seen it all. Along comes PF saying "Lets Find Out!" proving me wrong. This was hilarious, thanks for putting this together along with all your other very entertaining videos.
Bananas (including the peel) work as a low temperature lubricant. If you get it hot enough to boil of the water, it won't work. Like it works in old truck differentials if you just stuff it in.
Hi, there are many lubricants on the market using 'esther'oils as part of their base oil mixture. Those esthers are sometimes plantbased, palm oil, some small crops eyc... and avocado's could work fine for this but osn't an option due to the low yield of avocado's, it can't be mass produced at the levels we would use it for lubricating engines or machines. Fyi ofcourse they add additifs to the oil to give it wear protective properties, anti oxidation, etc
I will say this, I have seen this lawn mower chew up some gnarly stuff on this channel. The fact that this thing runs at all still is a testament to this guy's skill in small engine repair.
I'm thinking the oils in the peels would have a lot more lubricity. I wonder if straight banana oil would work. I know it has a really light viscosity. It will make your whole shop smell like banana candy!
I'm thinking this one is a partial myth. My guess is that they were just low on oil so they added the bananas to get the level back up, but the engine still mostly had normal oil in it.
Did anyone else laugh all the way through this video? Furthermore, how many books were read before finding an article on two men using bananas as engine oil?! This dude is awesome!!
I feel like he did the process entirely wrong I think they would have cooked the banana and squeeze the oil through a shirt. And Putting it into a cup. To remove the wax solids. They would also cook the peel as well to extract more oil.
......you know.....we've all had that time in our lives when some small-engined machine that we own just wouldn't run. Replace this, replace that....little guy just won't work. Frustrating. ...but project farm runs an engine for 30 mins with water and bananas in the crank. FML
I thought the idea was to add banana peels to the engine oil so the strands come off and wrap around journals or bearings. To temporarily fix a rod knock or leaking seal. Never heard of using them for an oil substitute.
More like... Since creation day 3! Genesis 1:9-13 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth †grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
@@TERRORoftheLORD Ah yes magical sky daddy said it existed, that's when, totally didn't, you know, evolve or exist through science. Must've been your evil megalomaniac imaginary friend!
I am glad that you specifically mentioned the difference in the engine oiler method, oil pump in the story vs oil slinger in the test, it was one of the concerns I had regarding the comparison, and I am glad to see it mentioned, even if you weren't able to test the same oiler type.
@@jusb1066 Was common to add the peels to differentials to stop the while for a time, as they made the oil inside a lot thicker and more of a gap filler, stopping gear to gear contact till they disintegrated.
Well, potassium is actuallu used as a substitute for lead in engines that were made for leaded gasoline so I would say that it by itself does not cause cramps in engines.
Still catching up on your many videos, fun stuff. Would be interesting to see a test of a similar engine running with just water as the lubricant to see how much of the engine surviving this was improved by the bananas.
@@ProjectFarm mate, may take advantage of you for one question? I about to buy a drill makita or dewalt but I’m not sure as I want to buy the right “battery platform”, if you know what I mean. Starting from zero, what would you choose?
Fun fact, we already have Bio-friendly motor oil. Renewable Lubricants Inc. (RLI) and Green Earth Technologies' G Oil are two varieties. There are probably more but those are the ones I'm most familiar with. RLI uses veggie oil as a base, G Oil is beef tallow based. I used RLI for 2k miles over 6 months once, it worked fine. I poured new and used RLI on my lawn and the grass died in a day but re-grew in a week. Very good. www.renewablelube.com
Try a gallium based liquid metal, I have heard of them being used as lubricants is some cases, they have high thermal stability and conductivity, would be interesting if nothing else, just be sure to use an engine that doesn't have aluminum :)
@@ProjectFarm +1 Gallium or any Gall-oy like galinstan would be cool af to see in an engine. Galinstan is apparently reasonably cheap to make DIY versus the ridiculous amount charged for it premixed. But I've never used a better thermal compound for my CPU/GPU since finding liquid metal.
Can you please design some merch that has one of the many quotable banana lines from this episode. Until today, I didn’t know I needed a BananaW-30 t-shirt in my life lmao 😂
There are some used car sellers in Poland putting honey with oil in the engine and sawdust in the gearbox, the sawdust actually doesn't do much of damage, just makes the gear changes "sticky", the honey in engine makes a lot of carbon deposit.
@@ebolele you can use very old used atf into slipping automatic trans it will fix them..like they say if it never got flushed leave it in there...i did the test and ended up with slipping gears
You may have had better results using Chiquita red bananas. :-). In the early part of the video, I thought I was watching a cooking channel for banana bread. LOL Great video as usual!
Most likely, its a myth. I’m from Chile and we don’t grow bananas, they have to be imported. Specially with the closed, locked down economy we had on the 60’s , and also on rural, poor areas, bananas should have difficult to come by. Maybe they used another fruit. (I heard about this story as a kid.)
Very cool how you show the thermal and frictional differences between using bananas and using oil, makes it easy to understand how it’s going to behave in the engine, though I didn’t expect it to work as a lubricant
This is so funny, I love it!! The sparks where great. A another great video! Thank you again for making time to do these videos for us, I can see it is a lot of work. I have a lot of fun watching you do these videos! Great job!!
I can already cover the HF welders. The little flux core is garbage but *can* weld in a pinch. That's what I use when I have to weld up a fence post standing in the mud getting rained on. The 170A unit welds hot. Like, really hot. You can do exhaust pipe with it but it's less welding, more 48475949485 tac welds. It does structural stuff fantastically well, though. It'll burn 3/8" plate together like you wouldn't believe.
I figured the sugars in the banana would of crystallized in the cylinder. And if they were in the desert, water would of been very valuable. So it got a be myth. Good work tho. 👍
DE Nichols if the mythbusters would’ve done it, they would’ve put a small nuke in the crankcase and send the crankshaft through the wall of someone’s house to finish off the episode.
Need to try again with peels mixed in since they may have some more substantial lubricating properties. Also try plantains since they may have been used and they didn't know the difference. Strangely hungry after watching this...
If I ever tried something like this plantains is the only answer, but I don't like bananas. I could put up with cooking plantains, but bananas? It'd drive me bananas. Lol
The oil is in the peel. the banana works as a carrier to get that peel oil everywhere. Works great for packing an old differential that slips, just pack whole bananas in there and seal it back up. Works like new.
I so forgot about the showdown on this one! By the way? I'd call it 5w-BW as the viscosity matching was figured out cold. Hot banana viscosity. So very curious and unanswered. Not trying to be suggestive!
Project Farm god yes! I’ll never understand why you guys still use old English imperial, you have thought it would have gone when you got your independence.
@@jabbawok944 USC Measurement SYSTEM is far superior to metric. (FYI I'm referring to the system not the units which are all equally defined in this day and age)
@@jabbawok944 metric didn't exist yet, Thomas Jefferson proposed a decimalized version of the foot-pound-second system of measurements but it never saw adaptation....
@@jabbawok944 it's a complicated history. officially the US is metric via different treaties, however when we did actually try converting in the 1970's people just refused to learn it and the effort was abandoned. However metric is taught in schools these days so a lot of the younger generation can use both systems (such as myself, i even leave my phone temperature in Celsius lol)
I first started seeing his videos when he only had 24k subscribers, now he has over 1 million, he's come a long way, keep up the good work project farm!
“Okay I’ve removed the engine oil now I’m going to add the bananas.”
You can add that to the list of things I never thought I’d hear
LOL!
" I'm going to add some water to the crank case see if we can get her spinning over. I think it just dried out on us!"
thankyou haha!
Also ",before we add bananas to the crankcase of this engine"
r/BrandNewSentence
@Bill Williams still has more compression than my mower lol
Sitting at 50 psi and still starts 1st pull didn't think itd even run that low
This man actually uses the scientific method and doesn’t just shove things into an engine. I love this channel already.
You’ve earned yourself a sub
Thank you!
Yes, though I'd probably watch even if he did just shove things into an engine, personally. I love watching people throw things into machines that aren't supposed to go there just to see what happens. Pretty awesome that he goes through all of the testing and everything beforehand though.
His test rig is highly flawed. All samples run dry about half way in.
Grzegorz Durda tell him
And how to improve
@@mrtechpat I already did. Otherwise he's pretty good and tries hard.
This channel needs two playlists: "Useful Information" and "Hold My Beer."
lol. Great point!
lol
I don't see the difference. lol
@@mymorristribe "Which oil should I use? Amazon Basics? Super Tech? Amsoil?"
PF: "Oh, I've got great videos on there that you can use to compare their merits, but have you ever considered...BANANAS?"
The video would be a lot better if the guy narrating didn't sound like a used car dealer trying to sell me a Suzuki
I’ve been going through a tough time and these videos make me smile and give me a good laugh on the tough days. Glad I found this channel
Glad to hear they cheer you up! Thanks for watching.
And he stills answering comments after 10 months! I would give him a hug if i could
Hang in there my friend. May you only have joy from now on
It's now late March 2021, and I hope you're doing better.
Hang in there Mr. Nick. Better days are coming
You’re answering questions I didn’t know I had
THE OIL IS IN THE BANANA PEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT THE EDIBLE PART.
@@justsoicanfingcomment5814 CHESTNUTS COME FROM WATER ITS IN THE NAME!!!
WATER CHESTNUTS!!!
@doodr you mean "grass" ie cannabis.
@doodr I DUNNO KNOW EXACTLY BUT I'VE READ THAT STEAM DISTILLATION IS USED TO EXTRACT ESSENTIAL OILS FROM PLANTS SO MAYBE THAT'LL WORK
Those bananas looked so good tho after you blended them
"Can bananas be used as engine oil?"
I don't need sleep I need answers...
lol. Thank you!
You need one answer because its one question. And you also need sleep because you confuse it and you won't understand the answer anyway..
@@konstantinoscrete2963 nigga you gay
@@7382467834 get lost idiot
@@konstantinoscrete2963 dont act like an idiot. It's a joke and fyi nobody thinks you're interesting cause you act like the typical social stunted genius on TV
I am now 80 years old and have personally seen Bannan peals used to stop an engine rod knock, used as rod bearings to boot, these have lasted for nearly two hours under an oil pressure feed system in automobiles on trade-ins'. Granted this was back there when I was in high school and shortly in my very early twenties when worked for a Used car lot dealer. This is a real and fully truthful statement.
I’ve heard it being used in a noisy rear end as well
And if you believe that, I've got a golden gate bridge in Arizona to sell you.
X 2 on the differential noise
Heard of saw dust in differential to quieter
My dad used strips of leather soaked in oil as rod bearings.
I'm talking about in the 1940s when it was easy to drop the oil pan and get access to the crankshaft
"amazing temperature difference between the two products"
it's bananas
Thanks for the feedback.
Sometimes I wonder if it's just a bot replying.
@@Oblithian thanks for the feedback.
wouldve been so much funnier if you'd make "bananas" *bold*
if you don't know btw, put a * at each end of a word
'The banana level is full' really made me laugh more than it should've
lol. Thank you!!
Lol
6:42 lol
I laughed so hard at that! Too funny 😂
@@ProjectFarm 00
I put bananas in my Mitsubishi Mirage. Now it has a bunch of extra power and totally peels out when I give it the gas!
As a Dad, I appreciate this.
Lol
That's bananas
You were supposed to use rice.
"Peels out" ba dum, tsssh!!! ..... i see what you did there!!
Test the best food grade oil as engine oil. Examples: olive, coconut, canola, soybean, avocado, peanut, sunflower, palm (please purchase sustainably farmed), etc.
Thank you for the video idea!
Now this is a good idea!
Great idea... except for spending more just for a label...
Some of those oils have a pretty high smoke temp might work.
avocado has the highest smoke temp.
Hey it was running at the 30 minute mark. It might make you home. I think having a gear-driven oil pump versus a splash oiling type system probably would make a big difference as well as the engine probably had some amount of oil in it as well.
I switched to synthetic bananas.
Mobil B Full BSynthetic
That's funny. I snorted my drink. I'm sueing. My attorneys from Dewey, Cheatham and Howe will be contacting you.
I quite like Billers Potassium Drive 5BW-40
Not if you've already been using dino-bananas i hope! (while we are on the subject of ridiculous things)
THE OIL IS IN THE BANANA PEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT THE EDIBLE PART.
"BW-30" Ha! Thanks for busting the myth, Todd.
Thank you!!
More like BW-10 ... bad temperature protection
Looked like he proved it... it did run on banana lol
Its not a myth tho... truckers use this in africa. You can find a video on youtube where it works from a documentary
Busted? That engine ran for 30mins even after seizing. I bet you could get a lot more run time if you had a constant/regulated flow of water. Maybe even enough time to make it back to base camp.
Just when i thought i had seen everything you could run in a lawnmower, I get a notification from Project Farm.
lol. Thank you
THE OIL IS IN THE BANANA PEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT THE EDIBLE PART.
"BANANA W-30" freaking lost here LMAO
Lmao
Lol 😂
when my lawn mower acts up I make them watch your videos and threaten to send them to you
lol. Nice!!
Hilarious
It's the mower equivalent of sending someone to The Ranch
InfernosReaper expect they don’t come back from his ranch
@@ProjectFarm bruh is all u say lol
You should do an episode comparing different hand soaps and their effectiveness on greasy hands! (Gojo, Lava, Dawn, etc!!!)
Thank you for the video idea!
Thumbs up if you've ever showered with Dawn dish soap
@@ericrundgren7257 any time you do a transmission for a buddy on his garage floor because the boss won't let you do it on the shops hoist. Lol cherry bomb by zep works the best and u come out smelling like cherry
@@ericrundgren7257 You come out squeeky clean.
One of the best grease and grime removers I use is Vim with Bleach ,
My favorite quote at 6:42 ,"The banana level is full."
Thank you
TLDR ty
Or banana weight 30 Haha 😂🤣
I feel like this could be a sci-fi movie where fusion cores are run off the potassium of bananas. "Captain, banana levels are full, we have warp core available"
@@jmanthackdaddy Bananas are mildly radioactive as I recall. So artificially forming a high decay, high energy isotope of potassium in a reactor may be possible. Could you imagine a radioactive pile of glowing Bananas! That would be hilarious!
I'm a retired firefighter and over the course of my career I have pretty much seen it all. Along comes PF saying "Lets Find Out!" proving me wrong. This was hilarious, thanks for putting this together along with all your other very entertaining videos.
You are welcome!
Oil is slippery. Bananas are slippery.. Bananas = engine oil!
Shane1228Earth no
Bananas (including the peel) work as a low temperature lubricant. If you get it hot enough to boil of the water, it won't work.
Like it works in old truck differentials if you just stuff it in.
This should be a Project Farm T-Shirt. I would buy one.
Makes sense
You forgot soap
I have an idea. As we know, avocado is more "oily", has more fat in it so I really wonder how'd it work as an engine oil :D
Interesting
Avocado oil also works best for high heat when cooking
@@internet_internet this could be good
So we would be lubricating a car with guacamole
Hi, there are many lubricants on the market using 'esther'oils as part of their base oil mixture. Those esthers are sometimes plantbased, palm oil, some small crops eyc... and avocado's could work fine for this but osn't an option due to the low yield of avocado's, it can't be mass produced at the levels we would use it for lubricating engines or machines.
Fyi ofcourse they add additifs to the oil to give it wear protective properties, anti oxidation, etc
Make a suggestion hell it's got to be better than bananas🤪
The moment i read the title i was like
"May the lord help this poor engine"
LOL!
I will say this, I have seen this lawn mower chew up some gnarly stuff on this channel. The fact that this thing runs at all still is a testament to this guy's skill in small engine repair.
Or he is just a mad scientist with a cage full of test subjects and a backyard strewn with their lifeless corpses.
I think you are supposed to use the whole banana, peel and all .
I think you're right. I'll have to redo this one if there's enough interest.
@@ProjectFarm I'm interested. Great Job BTW love your videos. Also, avocados for engine oil would be an interesting one.
Project Farm do the one with the peels! I’ve heard of stories of banana peels in manual transmissions and rear ends to quiet up gear noise.
@@ProjectFarm I would absolutely watch it.
I'm thinking the oils in the peels would have a lot more lubricity. I wonder if straight banana oil would work. I know it has a really light viscosity. It will make your whole shop smell like banana candy!
I'm thinking this one is a partial myth. My guess is that they were just low on oil so they added the bananas to get the level back up, but the engine still mostly had normal oil in it.
My thoughts also....surely the engine didn't use 100% of the oil!
Agreed
The way I heard it, they used Banana _Peels,_ not Bananas.
Also if they actually used bananas it most likely just put off the death of the engine juuuuust enough to get to civilization
Or banana drain plug
"Okay, the banana level is full."
🤔 I can't even remember the last time I checked my banana level.
lol. Nice!
U need more potassium brah
this is the second time he added water to the crank case
(O_O) !!!
I usually get my wife to check it
"Measure the film strength of cooked bananas" had me laughing :)
How about avocado?
Great suggestion. Thank you.
honestly Avocado oil is very good... I mean for food but it stands to reason(?) that it would be somewhat good as a lubricant
It’s 1am. I have to get up at 6 for school but watching bananas as engine oil is apparently more important. Love your videos haha
Thank you
Sentence that I never thought I would hear. Let me just add a little water to the crank case.😂
lol
no shit, right?
@@HardWhereHero that's an interesting lubricant to use.
How is that even funny dumbass
Paul Allen haHAA
If we're going to try food products, why not butter?
Thank you for the video idea!
Don't temp him, He'll do it!
Makes me remember "Last Tango in Paris" movie with Marlon Brando.
Or other things you might have in your car in a Roadtrip.
@@lloydprunier4415 I thought it was last mango in paris....
Did anyone else laugh all the way through this video?
Furthermore, how many books were read before finding an article on two men using bananas as engine oil?!
This dude is awesome!!
Thank you very much!
I feel like he did the process entirely wrong I think they would have cooked the banana and squeeze the oil through a shirt. And Putting it into a cup. To remove the wax solids. They would also cook the peel as well to extract more oil.
Me too, i laughed a lot
@@RaDrumba Next time, he's "gonna test that" : )
Yeah I think they used the banana fluid not the actual bananas
Why didnt you use the blended banana for the friction test?
Bananas as engine oil? I think someone is yanking your plantain.
Kinky.
Err... "wanking" your plantain
Shon Zee you can use bananas in a differential
Good one!
Hey this is a family show
......you know.....we've all had that time in our lives when some small-engined machine that we own just wouldn't run. Replace this, replace that....little guy just won't work. Frustrating.
...but project farm runs an engine for 30 mins with water and bananas in the crank. FML
Thank you!
I bet he's REALLY good at small engine repair.
@@iamzid Yuuuup.
“Okay let’s add the water to the banana”
Adding water into the block and listening to it sizzle back-up the funnel 🤣🤣
gold
how dead pan nonchalantly he said that is what cracked me up haha
I expected that he would add more banana instead of water?
A banana a day will not keep the mechanic away.
Clearly shouldve used apples.
Lol!
Guacamole.
More like: "Using Bananas as oil, will keep the mechanic employed."
Your science does n't Apple-y here.
Every time you say "Two explorers" I think of two ford SUV's both losing all their oil in the desert.
THE OIL IS IN THE BANANA PEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT THE EDIBLE PART.
Robert Gantry damn I thought I was the only one
I mean fords do have the tendency to randomly throw rods
Imagine if they were in Norway, they might be Fjord Explorers.
Great comment with two explorers you had me on the floor with that one
Has exams tomorrow
Me at 0032AM "Will Bananas work as engine oil" ☹
lol. Thank you. Hope all goes well with the exams
@@ProjectFarm its 12am for me and I got get up for school at 6am I always watch your video
“Hey man your car runs smooth. What kind of engine oil do you use?”
“Bananas...”
that's bananas
Gotta lubricate those bananas with some extra water..
"Chiquita"
Rather:
"Hey nan, your engine runs smooth, what kind of bananas do you use?"
"Ergh... excuse me?"
I thought the idea was to add banana peels to the engine oil so the strands come off and wrap around journals or bearings. To temporarily fix a rod knock or leaking seal. Never heard of using them for an oil substitute.
I love that you've switched up from just comparing different brands to this sort of "mythbusting"! Probably one of my most favorite channels lol.
Thank you
Banana W-30 😂 ‘ since 1820 !
More like... Since creation day 3!
Genesis 1:9-13
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth †grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
is that what the banana sticker says ?
@@TERRORoftheLORD Ah yes magical sky daddy said it existed, that's when, totally didn't, you know, evolve or exist through science. Must've been your evil megalomaniac imaginary friend!
color me impressed that it even started back up the second time. thought it was toast right there.
Banana W-30 is now part of my lexicon. Thanks so much for this!
Thank you
I prefer 5w-BW as the thickness was set up room temperature. Lol
This must be what my old neighbor used to put in his mower
lol
TO SHOW YOU THE POWER OF FLEXTAPE, I SAWED THIS ENGINE IN HALF; and ran it on only bananas
LOL Thank you!
That thumbnail was an absolute riot in my recommendations.
This channel is a real treat Todd.
Thanks!
6:36 "When I drained all the engine oil I'll go ahead and add the bananas."
Sentences no engineer like to hear 😂
Lol!
I have seen it done before. You need to use the peel too
avocado have alot of oil maybe that would work better !!!!!!!
Thank you!
@@ProjectFarm Coconut oil as engine oil?
I'd like to see it tried!
He needs to use olive oil for italian cars
NOOOOOOOOOO
I am glad that you specifically mentioned the difference in the engine oiler method, oil pump in the story vs oil slinger in the test, it was one of the concerns I had regarding the comparison, and I am glad to see it mentioned, even if you weren't able to test the same oiler type.
Thank you!
I should have watched the whole video before jamming bananas in my car.
youll be fine
lol
@@jusb1066 Was common to add the peels to differentials to stop the while for a time, as they made the oil inside a lot thicker and more of a gap filler, stopping gear to gear contact till they disintegrated.
😂
Lol Good one!
Ah yes. Bananas. Just as good as castrol oil
Lol I read that colasteroal
Not as good as Castrol but maybe as good as Quaker State.
@The TacomaKid you're welcome 🌮
Ya! Bananas. Way to go
LoL, is supposed to be mashed up skins. They did that for a differential case on this one show in Africa.
Huh...
So potassium prevents cramps in people, but CAUSES cramps in engines.
Now make a loaf of Banana Bread using Mobil 1.
lol. Great point
A white potato with its skin has more than double the potassium. Mash potatoes with skin engine oil replacement needed!
@@lightdark00 With butter, sour cream and chives to be safe!
Well, potassium is actuallu used as a substitute for lead in engines that were made for leaded gasoline so I would say that it by itself does not cause cramps in engines.
Emmm I could use a slice of chocolate chip banana loaf from Tim Hortons right now
Still catching up on your many videos, fun stuff. Would be interesting to see a test of a similar engine running with just water as the lubricant to see how much of the engine surviving this was improved by the bananas.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I'm a simple man: I see someone using bananas as engine oil. I watch.
I couldn't resist, I had to watch, LOL!
We have problems in life
Welp, there's a video i thought i'd never see.
Thanks brother
Thank you
Metoo
This is the only channel I have the subscription bell turned on for.
Also...
This concept is just nuts.
Wait, I meant banan- whatever.
Thank you very much!!
Mmmmm banana nut bread
NONSENSE & MAGNIFICENT at the same time!!!!!simply thank you
You are welcome!
@@ProjectFarm mate, may take advantage of you for one question? I about to buy a drill makita or dewalt but I’m not sure as I want to buy the right “battery platform”, if you know what I mean. Starting from zero, what would you choose?
Fully synthetic Vs. fully organic.
FIGHT!
Thank you
Well, Synthetic oil is still made mostly from crude oil, and crude oil is definitely organic. So it's really organic vs. organic.
Fun fact, we already have Bio-friendly motor oil. Renewable Lubricants Inc. (RLI) and Green Earth Technologies' G Oil are two varieties. There are probably more but those are the ones I'm most familiar with. RLI uses veggie oil as a base, G Oil is beef tallow based. I used RLI for 2k miles over 6 months once, it worked fine. I poured new and used RLI on my lawn and the grass died in a day but re-grew in a week. Very good.
www.renewablelube.com
Project Farm has gone bananas! "OK the banana level is full"
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"hey man can you check the dipstick?"
"banana level is full, let's hit the road!"
Very educational video!!! Great Job!!!!
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Thumbs up before I even watch. Y'all know it's gonna be good
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i did as well lol, i see the usual short bus seat warmers have been here down voting the video all ready.
i knew from the title that i will face difficulties to watch the episode without laughing out loud. And i was right....
The engine test videos are my favorite. I would have never thought of trying bananas. Looking forward to the next engine test.
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Try a gallium based liquid metal, I have heard of them being used as lubricants is some cases, they have high thermal stability and conductivity, would be interesting if nothing else, just be sure to use an engine that doesn't have aluminum :)
Thank you for the video idea!
Isn't gallium toxic though? Might not be the best idea to vaporize it out of an exhaust.
@@ProjectFarm +1 Gallium or any Gall-oy like galinstan would be cool af to see in an engine. Galinstan is apparently reasonably cheap to make DIY versus the ridiculous amount charged for it premixed. But I've never used a better thermal compound for my CPU/GPU since finding liquid metal.
I hate to say it, but Briggs and Stratton, Tecumseh, and Honda are aluminum block engines, with aluminum pistons.
@@David-xo8ci its not toxic
Can you please design some merch that has one of the many quotable banana lines from this episode. Until today, I didn’t know I needed a BananaW-30 t-shirt in my life lmao 😂
They do this in Africa but usually in the gear differential of big trucks. I think they shove them in there peel and all. Maybe cut the stems off
Theres a vice documentary where the trucker did this
The Raisin lol wonder what kept them from putting actual diff oil in. It’s not very expensive
@@Range-X Maybe they just had some extra bananas
There are some used car sellers in Poland putting honey with oil in the engine and sawdust in the gearbox, the sawdust actually doesn't do much of damage, just makes the gear changes "sticky", the honey in engine makes a lot of carbon deposit.
@@ebolele you can use very old used atf into slipping automatic trans it will fix them..like they say if it never got flushed leave it in there...i did the test and ended up with slipping gears
As always fun video! Thanks for the work you put into these videos!
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You may have had better results using Chiquita red bananas. :-). In the early part of the video, I thought I was watching a cooking channel for banana bread. LOL Great video as usual!
lol. Thank you. You've got a great channel. Looking forward to your next video.
THE OIL IS IN THE BANANA PEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT THE EDIBLE PART.
Curse you!!!
Now I want banana bread.
Glad there is someone answering all the pressing questions I didn't know I had!
Glad I can help!
Most likely, its a myth. I’m from Chile and we don’t grow bananas, they have to be imported. Specially with the closed, locked down economy we had on the 60’s , and also on rural, poor areas, bananas should have difficult to come by. Maybe they used another fruit. (I heard about this story as a kid.)
THE OIL IS IN THE BANANA PEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT THE EDIBLE PART.
@Yuck Foutube The engine would probably run hot if you tried that.
DID HE PRONOUNCE CHILE WRONG?
1980 : I bet there's gonna be flying cars in 2019
2019 : "using banana as engine oil"
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Project Farm technology has gone too far
2019: They'll have figured out the problem with electric car batteries by 2050
2050:How many lemon batteries does it take to power a Tesla?
What if you filtered the bw-30 before using it?
At some point you'll be pretty much using water as oil
you have the most organized channel and process of setup i have ever seen.
amazing job
Thanks!
What about testing personal lubricants ;-)
Water-based, oil-based and silicone-based
Thank you for the video idea!
I'd love to see this lol. "We ran out of oil but luckily we had a few quarts of KY left".
Water based would burn up instantly
Ummmm... what exactly did you have in mind for the cylinder and piston?
THE OIL IS IN THE BANANA PEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT THE EDIBLE PART.
Banana peals.
You eat the part you blended, and you're supposed to use the peal.
A B now that's an appealing thought. And to think you were trying to give us the slip.
I didn't know that bananas made a bell sound and even if they do I suspect that sound will not act as a good engine oil.
I was thinking the same, Most of the oil is in the skins.
@@Newzchspy On no, a bunch of puns.
And it's meant for diffs. Legit it's an old trick to quiet down a worn diff...usually for sale lol.
I feel like coconut needs to be tried as well.
Thank you for the video idea!
Coconut oil :)
Coconut W-30
Very cool how you show the thermal and frictional differences between using bananas and using oil, makes it easy to understand how it’s going to behave in the engine, though I didn’t expect it to work as a lubricant
Thanks for the feedback.
Hey project farm. Think you should revisit this one. Arent banana peels supposed to be the slippery part. 🤔
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"Ok, the banana level is full"
New tattoo 😂
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THE OIL IS IN THE BANANA PEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT THE EDIBLE PART.
I didn't realize I time traveled back to 1-April...
You'd have to go back to the late 60s and read a Dutch Citroen brochure to achieve that.
This is so funny, I love it!! The sparks where great. A another great video! Thank you again for making time to do these videos for us, I can see it is a lot of work. I have a lot of fun watching you do these videos! Great job!!
Thanks and you are welcome!
LOL... you went bananas on this one ! 🤔😁
Thank you! Mythbuster videos like this one are fun. Looking forward to your next video!
@@ProjectFarm exactly what I was thinking, the myth busters stuff is a blast for sure !!!.
Couple of video ideas.
Honda engine verses Honda clone. How close are they? Quality?
Harbor Freight welder. Will it weld?
Thank you!
I can already cover the HF welders. The little flux core is garbage but *can* weld in a pinch. That's what I use when I have to weld up a fence post standing in the mud getting rained on.
The 170A unit welds hot. Like, really hot. You can do exhaust pipe with it but it's less welding, more 48475949485 tac welds. It does structural stuff fantastically well, though. It'll burn 3/8" plate together like you wouldn't believe.
The way i see it is like comparing chinese castings vs japanese castings...basically like german quality vs mexicans(no pun intended😂)
I figured the sugars in the banana would of crystallized in the cylinder. And if they were in the desert, water would of been very valuable. So it got a be myth. Good work tho. 👍
would have*
At first, this whole idea seemed Crazy.
Then after a little while I realized:
It was Bananas.
Underrated comment 👏
No one:
Project Farm: Can bananas be used as engine oil?
THE OIL IS IN THE BANANA PEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT THE EDIBLE PART.
Yeah. But you could say he did a mythbusters episode minus finishing the engine entirely off. Lol
DE Nichols if the mythbusters would’ve done it, they would’ve put a small nuke in the crankcase and send the crankshaft through the wall of someone’s house to finish off the episode.
That’s the PRECISE reason I’m subscribed to his channel. Questions I didn’t know I NEEDED the answer to
@@stevenvanheel3932 lol. Yeah. He's blown up enough engines. This one just developed a knock knock joke that's on the engine!
Need to try again with peels mixed in since they may have some more substantial lubricating properties.
Also try plantains since they may have been used and they didn't know the difference.
Strangely hungry after watching this...
If I ever tried something like this plantains is the only answer, but I don't like bananas. I could put up with cooking plantains, but bananas? It'd drive me bananas. Lol
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The oil is in the peel. the banana works as a carrier to get that peel oil everywhere. Works great for packing an old differential that slips, just pack whole bananas in there and seal it back up. Works like new.
Love this stuff, can we just take a moment to commend the makers of these engines you torture? Bravo to them too.
Thank you for the feedback!
good old briggs & stratton engines. never had one i couldn't get running. they are so simple and reliable id never wanna use anything else
mr blue pick do you play minecraft?
bmxscape same
I was looking for a banana jelly recipe, but found this instead. I'm not disappointed!
Glad you like it!
So, I take it BW-30 didn't make it to the showdown? Very entertaining, thank you!
lol. No, it did not.
I so forgot about the showdown on this one! By the way? I'd call it 5w-BW as the viscosity matching was figured out cold.
Hot banana viscosity. So very curious and unanswered. Not trying to be suggestive!
Myth busters but better LOL, really loved this one man!
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Thanks for using metric measurement! :)
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Project Farm god yes! I’ll never understand why you guys still use old English imperial, you have thought it would have gone when you got your independence.
@@jabbawok944 USC Measurement SYSTEM is far superior to metric. (FYI I'm referring to the system not the units which are all equally defined in this day and age)
@@jabbawok944 metric didn't exist yet, Thomas Jefferson proposed a decimalized version of the foot-pound-second system of measurements but it never saw adaptation....
@@jabbawok944 it's a complicated history. officially the US is metric via different treaties, however when we did actually try converting in the 1970's people just refused to learn it and the effort was abandoned. However metric is taught in schools these days so a lot of the younger generation can use both systems (such as myself, i even leave my phone temperature in Celsius lol)
You are literally, 'the man!!!' Love your videos!!!! Thank you!!!!
I've seen the banana trick used for axle grease in the desert, back areas in Africa... not oil though.
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I'd consider that engine to not be toast but more like flan.
lol. Great point
Ah,,, but can that be,,, the engine didn't have a flan belt.... 😞 ( I know,,, boo )
Video Idea. Can Marvell Mystery Oil restore that banana engine to a working condition?
Thank you for the video idea!
@kopfgeldjagar I'm curious if that would help at all as well. LOL
@@ProjectFarmYour welcome. That engine was pretty damaged. This would be a good test to see how it performs.
@kopfgeldjagar legit
i think it can.
See if you can fix it with liquimoly! I’d live to see if it can restore the compression. I saw the video of it working on your tractor
Original_Indy_04 either that or restore engine treatment
Ceratec!
Thank you for the video idea!
Or use restore again!
Project Farm np
I first started seeing his videos when he only had 24k subscribers, now he has over 1 million, he's come a long way, keep up the good work project farm!
Thanks! Will do!