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Yahoo
17 hours ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Why Did Cartridge Oil Filters Replace Spin-Ons In New Cars?
Before we dive headfirst into the fascinating topic of oil filters, let's address the title of this article real quick. At first glance, it could be construed that we are of the mind that spin-on oil filters predate cartridge filters; in fact, the opposite is true. Cartridge filters are definitely an older technology that was displaced in many vehicles starting in the mid-20th century, when spin-on oil filters were invented. Cartridge filters never totally went away, though, and they're experiencing a huge resurgence at present. Whether it's the cartridge or spin-on type, oil filters are one of the most important components of an engine, which is ironic since their cost is so modest; almost certainly less than $20 and possibly less than $5 if you're a dedicated Walmart shopper. Oil filters remove contaminants like flecks of carbon, dust, and tiny metallic particles that result from engine wear. That keeps your oil clean in the miles driven between oil changes, which are less frequent than ever in this age of superior oil technology. That said, there's a limit to the size of particles that a typical oil filter can remove without creating a restriction to oil flow. If you want finer filtration still, consider installing a bypass oil filter in addition to the factory full-flow filter. Read more: Save Your Engine: 5 Tips For Preventing And Cleaning Carbon Buildup Pay Attention With Either Style Filter The first oil filters debuted over 100 years ago, in 1923. Prior to that, engines either used no filter at all or, at best, an ineffective metal screen. Those early oil filters were all cartridge style because the spin-on type wasn't invented until 1954. When a modern cartridge-style oil filter is purchased, the package typically contains only the naked pleated filter element itself, plus a pair of new o-rings; one for the filter housing and one for the housing's center tube. The center tube returns oil to the engine and gives the cartridge filter its rigidity. The filter housing, often plastic, is reused many times or possibly forever if it stays in good condition. On the other hand, spin-on filters are self-contained. The filter media is sealed inside a metal canister with an integral gasket or o-ring already pre-installed. Like the name implies, you simply screw it onto a male-threaded mounting boss on the engine once the old filter has been removed. It's worth mentioning that with spin-on filters, you should double check that the old gasket or o-ring came off with the old filter and didn't stay attached to the engine block. Otherwise, the two stacked gaskets will create sealing problems, at a minimum. Whether tightening either a cartridge oil filter housing or a spin-on filter, make sure it's not cross-threaded, nor screwed on too damn tight. Cartridge-Style Oil Filters Are More Eco-Friendly Shortly after its introduction, the spin-on filter dominated the market, particularly among American auto manufacturers that re-engineered their engines to accept this new invention. For example, the most produced engine ever, Chevy's small-block V8, was converted from cartridge to spin-on filter in the mid-1960s. The spin-on filter was considered to be quicker and easier to replace, although that's certainly debatable. A cartridge oil filter mounted on top of an engine is arguably easier and neater than wrestling with one attached to the bottom of an engine block under the car. So while the spin-on oil filter was the latest and greatest for a while, plenty of cars continue to use cartridge filters to this day. That's especially true of European brands and German marques in particular. Recently, cartridge oil filters are regaining ground versus the spin-on type amongst automakers because of environmental concerns. Cartridge filters are just more environmentally friendly, since unlike a spin-on filter, most of the assembly gets reused and there's no integrated dirty metal housing that requires disposal again and again. According to parts manufacturer Ecogard, more than 70 million used automotive filters are disposed of each year in the state of California alone. Furthermore, the amount of steel contained in one year's worth of discarded spin-on oil filters from just California is enough to build three sports stadiums. Regardless of what type of oil filter your vehicle uses, the quality and filtration ability of the element inside is what's really important. Hmm, maybe that $2.97 Walmart oil filter isn't such a great idea after all? Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Forbes
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Black Sabbath Charts 10 Albums At The Same Time
Black Sabbath's music is experiencing a major resurgence in the United Kingdom following the death of Ozzy Osbourne last month. That uptick in sales and streams hasn't faded just yet, even though the shock has largely worn off. While most posthumous bumps tend to cool off quickly, the heavy metal legends are still climbing, and this frame, the band notches one of its most impressive showings on the British charts ever. Black Sabbath Charts 10 Albums at Once This week, Black Sabbath sees 10 different projects appear on the U.K.'s albums rankings. That figure is up from last frame, when the first spike in streams and sales hit in the immediate wake of Osbourne's passing. This updated total includes two titles—The Eternal Idol and Sabotage—that weren't charting last time around. Both sets return to multiple tallies and manage to land on a trio of rosters apiece. Most Black Sabbath Titles Are Gaining Unlike many catalog acts that slide slowly after a spike, Black Sabbath's discography is gaining. Nearly every title on the U.K. rankings this frame improves its standing from last week, with only Greatest Hits and Black Sabbath – Vol 4 slipping, or holding steady. The rest of the group's projects either move up or reappear on additional tallies. Paranoid Stands Out Among All Albums Paranoid remains Black Sabbath's top performer during this Osbourne-honoring run. The set appears on seven U.K. charts — more than any other in the band's catalog. It hits a new peak of No. 60 on the Official Albums Streaming chart, even as it slides slightly on a few other lists. Vol 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Reappear In addition to Paranoid, other titles are still seeing the benefit of the huge amount of attention being paid to both Osbourne and Black Sabbath's catalogs. Vol 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath both reappear on multiple tallies and in several cases, improve their positions. Both albums initially surged right after the news of Osbourne's passing, but they're not done doing so just yet. Black Sabbath Dominates the Sales Tallies Black Sabbath continues to dominate the U.K.'s sales-specific rosters. This week, nine of the group's full-lengths appear on the Official Albums Sales chart. That sum includes four returns to the Official Albums chart, which blends physical and digital sales with streaming.
Bloomberg
04-08-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
‘Markets Are Open for IPOs,' NYSE's Martin Says
NYSE President Lynn Martin discusses the resurgence in IPO activity in the first half of 2025, the strength of the upcoming pipeline, and optimism over NYSE Texas. (Source: Bloomberg)
South China Morning Post
03-08-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Trump's Pakistan pivot redefines US-India dynamics: ‘no permanent friends'
An unexpected resurgence in ties between the United States and Pakistan amid Washington's simmering tensions with India has turned the tables in the dynamics between the three nations, according to observers. Hours after the announcement, the American leader revealed a 'massive' oil exploration deal with Pakistan, saying that some day, India might have to buy oil from Islamabad. Michael Kugelman, director of the Wilson Centre's South Asia Institute, said the tables had turned in the US-Pakistan-India triangle. US relations with Pakistan had experienced 'unexpected resurgence', Kugelman told This Week in Asia, adding that the sudden change signalled a serious challenge for New Delhi, given Washington and India had seen a deepening strategic partnership over the last two decades. 'There have been moments of crises, bumps on the road, but they have largely been surmountable, but in this case you are looking at a long period of a time, there have been repeated cases of US statements messaging actions that have concerned India a lot,' Kugelman said.
Yahoo
24-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Have you noticed smoking is making a comeback? I hate that. I love that.
The sight of snuffed cigarette butts in an ashtray might feel jarringly anachronistic these days, given successful efforts to curtail the smelly act for decades. Nonetheless, we're edging toward a resurgence, at least in popular culture, of the classic combustion of an old-school cigarette, even if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assures us rates aren't yet increasing. Unfortunately, I've fallen into the quiet resurgence. I'm a 46-year-old diabetic who tries to be healthy, yet after quitting 20 years ago, I find myself back in the alley occasionally (always shamefully) puffing as I hold pleasure and consequence in the same breath. My friends call it nostalgia. I think it's deeper – a defiant exhale of the angst and authenticity I crave in an uncertain world. Smoking was eradicated. Now it's creeping back into the mainstream. The historical canon of smoking is well-documented from early 20th century glamour and association with sophistication, rebellion and artistic freedom – see flappers, film noir, World War II soldiers, the Beat Generation, the Marlboro Man and Bob Dylan. I grew up in the haze of the 1990s when smoking wasn't just a habit, it was a personality – raw and rebellious – butts smeared with Courtney Love's red lipstick, the thrift-store fantasy of "Reality Bites," the sultry detachment of Mia Wallace in "Pulp Fiction." But smoking fell out of favor over the past several decades, transforming the cigarette from an emblem of cool into a symbol of a bygone era, fraught with undeniable health consequences. Increased spending on public health campaigns successfully shifted public perception in the 1990s and early 2000s as tobacco control media campaigns vilified the act. Opinion: Is it Alzheimer's or am I just getting old? Here's how to find an answer. In 1998, federal law prohibited paid smoking product placement on TV and in the movies, and subsequent smoking bans made it difficult to light up where secondhand smoke might blow. Taxes made cigarettes pricey, and in 2007, the Motion Picture Association of America began considering cigarette use as a factor in film ratings. Meanwhile, I managed to quit smoking while navigating my career and a second marriage, as anti-smoking campaigns gained traction and thankfully weakened tobacco's power. Decades later, the old-school act of combusting nicotine is back in the zeitgeist. The New York Times recently reported on the aesthetic resurgence of smoking, and even the Republican Party brought the act back to the U.S. Capitol in 2023. Eight in 10 of the 2025 Oscar best picture nominees featured tobacco imagery. In the new Netflix show 'Too Much,' the character Felix practically begs you to tell him smoking isn't cool, as he puffs between his nail-polished fingers and we swoon. Mistrust of institutions and our angst are why smoking is back This cultural phenomenon unfolds against a backdrop of deep and precipitous institutional distrust in the U.S. government and a decline in trust across various sectors from 2021 to 2024, including pharmacies, hospitals, social service agencies, fire departments, universities, police departments and public health departments. Concurrent to these visual cues of lighting up, global anti-smoking efforts are quietly being defunded in favor of even bigger world problems. Without dedicated efforts to keep smokers focused on the undeniable health consequences, are we soon to face an even bigger health crisis? Recent legislation will surely compromise health care for 17 million Americans in the near term. Opinion: I'm taking a stand against jacked-up airline fees by taking the middle seat This rebirth points to a deeper longing for control. This stance was well-spun by Kurt Vonnegut when he said, 'The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.' In this chosen ritual, however infrequent, I signal a visceral middle finger to ambient anxieties and constant demands for optimization. I scroll my phone anxiously as I'm bombarded by news that's not immediately credible, often a polarized take on fleeting democratic norms. Smoking is terrible for my health. But it helps feed my need to rebel. Smoking offers a palpable pause, a singular moment of physical presence in an existence mediated by the ever-present pressure of political machinations. And when those threats feel ambient and involuntary, smoking is a sensory language all its own, where the health consequences almost fade to black (like my lungs) as I relish each tantalizing feature of personal agency. Opinion alerts: Get columns from your favorite columnists + expert analysis on top issues, delivered straight to your device through the USA TODAY app. Don't have the app? Download it for free from your app store. If I asked my therapist why I returned to a pack of Kool 100 Milds as a way to subconsciously control the world's chaos, she'd likely say it's like thumb sucking, a childish habit that I need to eradicate – immediately. I can't disagree. Smoking is awful for my health. Still, the choice to engage with a known threat paradoxically feels safer than the chaos beyond my control, where fundamental freedoms, like the right to bodily autonomy, are increasingly debated and denied. It speaks to my desire for imperfection, a reclaiming of agency over my body, and deliberate choices in defiance of a societal narrative that often conflates moral virtue with absolute health. For those, like me, who sometimes justify with a 'one or two won't kill me,' it's important to remember all the reasons we quit in the first place. In addition to the risk of lung cancer or worse, I remind myself of the absurdity of Botoxing my forehead wrinkles and injecting Ozempic if I'm willing to suck on a cancer stick. I put saccharine, bubble-gum flavored vapes and nicotine pouches in this category, too – they're all really bad for our health. There's no dispute on that, whether or not we fully demonize smoking. And maybe the fact that we all know how bad it is is the problem. Smoking is Chapter 1 of the original anti-authority playbook, creeping back into consciousness the minute we look away. Akin to slipping on my classic black leather jacket, it will never truly go out of style. Society, it seems, once again sanctions both as my potent symbols of defiance in a world rife with involuntary consequences. Andrea Javor is a freelance writer and marketing executive based in Chicago. She spends her free time playing poker and working on her memoir. Connect with her on Instagram: @AndreaEJavor You can read diverse opinions from our USA TODAY columnists and other writers on the Opinion front page, on X, formerly Twitter, @usatodayopinion and in our Opinion newsletter. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Is smoking coming back? Cigarettes still hold power over us | Opinion Solve the daily Crossword
