3-In-One Motor Oil: Mystery Inclusions

Our new-to-us house included a heavy-duty basement dehumidifier with a blower motor calling for a few drops of SAE 20 oil twice a year. Some searching turned up a specialized flavor of 3-In-One Oil for motors.

It arrived with free inclusions:

3-in-One Motor Oil - top inclusion
3-in-One Motor Oil – top inclusion

Backlighting makes them more obvious:

3-in-One Motor Oil - top inclusion - backlit
3-in-One Motor Oil – top inclusion – backlit

There’s also a free-floating jellyfish slightly denser than the oil:

3-in-One Motor Oil - bottom inclusion - backlit
3-in-One Motor Oil – bottom inclusion – backlit

As is now the typical case with Amazon purchases, the only choices are to return / exchange the item, as the seller cannot be contacted directly. I tried sending 3-In-One a question through their website, en passant discovering they’ve been Borged by The WD-40 Company, only to be rejected by the site’s Captcha without ever seeing the test images.

AFAICT, it’s oil and the motor will just have to get used to it.

5 thoughts on “3-In-One Motor Oil: Mystery Inclusions

  1. For what it’s worth, I found that some websites won’t show Captcha stuff to me if I’m using Pale Moon as a browser. Or, it will show but I can’t get a successful run. Also some other content doesn’t show on Pale Moon, but I haven’t tried to figure out which ones.

    I keep a current version of Firefox and use that when I run across such issues.

      1. And on Chrome, too, which tells me they really don’t want to hear from anybody.

        I can take a hint!

  2. Don’t be fooled. Those “inclusions” are alien embryos. Carefully filter them out of the oil and immerse them in a nutrient-rich water-based solution. Apply a 3 microvolt 15Hz signal, maintain a pH of 7 and a 37C temperature. Keep in darkness. Gestation time is ~3 earth years.

    1. There’s a chant rising in the background: “Don’t open the jar! Don’t open the jar! Don’t open the jar!

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