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You forgot Gilnisil. "Splitting hairs". Same basic materials and processes, different names. From MG Cycle:Each Gilardoni "set" includes 1 new Gilnisil (Nikasil, Nigusil) plated cylinder, 1 new piston, 1 set of rings, 1 wrist pin, and 2 wrist pin circlips. One set is shown in each photo. Two "sets" are required to complete an engine.So, if someone has replaced the originals with Gilardoni cylinder kits, then "Nigusil" is as incorrect as "Nikasil", it should be "Gilnisil".
Sir Humphrey Davy named the metal "Aluminium" so that is the proper name.
In 1808 Sir Humphry Davy, the British chemist who discovered the metal, named it �alumium.� With just one �i� and an �ium� ending, it straddled the two competing versions we have today.Four years later, however, Davy changed his mind and gave the metal the name �aluminum� (yup, the one-�i� American version). In his book Elements of Chemical Philosophy, published in 1812, Davy wrote, �As yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state. �
The first person to produce it was Hans Christian Oersted at Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1825, and he did it by heating aluminum chloride with potassium. Even so, his sample was impure. It fell to the German chemist Friedrich W�hler to perfect the method in 1827, and obtain pure aluminum for the first time by using sodium instead of potassium.
But later that same year other scientists decided “aluminum” didn’t sound sufficiently Latin, so they began calling it “aluminium.” Here’s a quote from the Quarterly Review: “Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound.”
I figure the different names between Nikasil /Nigusil is depending which country you heard it from. Like Aluminum (US)/ Aluminium (Canada, UK). So let's split hairs.
In Japan they drive on the left side of the road like the Brits. Every time I wanted to walk across an intersection there I'd be looking for traffic coming from the wrong direction! Doh !
Nope, lets not, the OP had it right...and this quote from Wikipedia explains it perfectly. Nigusil is a patented metal alloy created by Moto Guzzi for motorcycle cylinder liners. The name is an acronym for Nickel-Guzzi-Silicon.Moto Guzzi, having successfully created the first engine with a chromed cylinder lining, continued research to find a material that could replace chrome. The research culminated with Nigusil, a nickel-silicon alloy applied to the cylinder through special procedures. This innovation allowed lower friction coefficient in the engine, significantly lower levels of mechanical parts wear, and considerable savings of lubricant. Treatment of cylinders through Nigusil was also used by many manufacturers, Maserati among them, and generally on racing engines.Nigusil was introduced in 1979 on the 350 cc V35, then the V50 and 850T4. It was with the higher performance 850 cc 850 Le Mans II model where it really made its mark. From engine 80390 (in Europe) in mid-1980, the Nigusil-plated bores introduced with the second series of the II engine allowed the use of lighter pistons and rings with closer tolerances. These ran cooler than the earlier engine, giving more consistent tolerances and reducing the engine's previously high oil consumption.[1] Nigusil is often confused with Nikasil and some texts use the term interchangeably.[2]References [1] & [2] Falloon, Ian (2007). The Moto Guzzi Sport & Le Mans Bible. Veloce Publishing. p. 79. ISBN 184584064X. Walker, Mick (1999). Moto Guzzi Twins Restoration. MotorBooks International. pp. 44–46. ISBN 1610590856.
I'm looking at a apparently stock '78 T-3. If it hasn't been modified or updated, Chrome or Nigusel??
