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For when he builds his chop. A oil cooler with fins! 
'06 TBA - Black, AI and Snorkel removed, K&N Drop In, Gutted Stock Pipes, 145/42, 2 turns out.
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That's nice, but needs more fins....  
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Oooh! Fins, Dwight will be happy.
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Fins and Dwight and this being the end of shark week, someone should post a pic of Jaws. Some day I'll learn to post pics on this site, you will be amazed and most likely offended.
FYI, An oil tank is not an oil cooler even if i has fins.
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Cool! Yeah, I like these oil tanks, guys! Actually, I do have an old Webco spun aluminum oil tank on my '70 Street Tracker that's all polished up, but it doesn't have any fins on it. For all my fellow "Fin Aficionados" out there, check this site out here... http://www.sportslinkup.com/shop/0-Triumph-finned-1.htmlI do have a few of these items on my Tracker, such as the finned points cover and the finned rocker cover caps, and of course the finned exhaust header clamps.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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2004 Triumph Speedmaster (J Lo) 2006 Yamaha Stratoliner (Adele)
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I wonder how well fins really work as a cooling mechanism. They sure look cool.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I wonder how well fins really work as a cooling mechanism. They sure look cool.
Ummmmmm...well Chad, I'd say if you're REALLY interested in findin' the answer to THAT question, then I'd say if maybe you'd file off the cylinder barrel fins on your Bonnie America(or is it a Speedie you have, I forget), and then run it for say 15 minutes real hard, you MIGHT find out!!!  
(...yeah, I knew you really meant fins on oil tanks and such, but hey THAT'S what ya GET for sayin' stuff around here in such a broad manner and without bein' specific, and so leavin' me these openings...just like that "There's only one state and that's Texas" thing you said in the "How Many States" thread!!!!) 
Okay, to answer your question here seriously, the fins on those oil TANKS may cool the oil a little, but my guess is probably not much. I would think that just moving the oil away from a Dry Sump engine(such as the old Triumphs had), would probably be as important to the cooling process as anything in this case.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Right, the reason for the question is that the fins on those oil cans are shallow rather than deep like the fins on the heads and jugs on an air cooled bike. Any way I have an idea that could be interesting and may actually work. The idea is to take an old cylinder jug and make an oil tank slash cooler out of it.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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A purely simple explanation of fins by a dim wit;
Air is far less efficient a cooling agent as is liquid. Exibit A: Boil 2 eggs. Leave one in air to cool. Place the other in ambient temperature water. Wait 15 minutes and open them up. The one in water is far cooler that the air cooled egg. Apply this same hypothesis to hot metal and Dwight’s question gets answered. Un-finned, air cooled jugs get fried. Hence, fins serve to increase the surface area of the object to be cooled in order to allow for the inefficiency of air. This is why it is possible to have smooth (fin-less) water cooled engines and/or water cooled engines having minimal/marginal fins. Ultimately, if a chicken’s arse could tolerate fins, the perfect egg for boiling would be finned. Now, back to the lab.
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The pic I posted was/is actually an oil filter, I'm sure there is some oil tank out there that is heavily finned...Now I off on a quest... 
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I guest you can use that oil filter as a tank... 
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A purely simple explanation of fins by a dim wit;
Air is far less efficient a cooling agent as is liquid. Exibit A: Boil 2 eggs. Leave one in air to cool. Place the other in ambient temperature water. Wait 15 minutes and open them up. The one in water is far cooler that the air cooled egg. Apply this same hypothesis to hot metal and Dwight’s question gets answered. Un-finned, air cooled jugs get fried. Hence, fins serve to increase the surface area of the object to be cooled in order to allow for the inefficiency of air. This is why it is possible to have smooth (fin-less) water cooled engines and/or water cooled engines having minimal/marginal fins. Ultimately, if a chicken’s arse could tolerate fins, the perfect egg for boiling would be finned. Now, back to the lab.
Great explanation there, Professor Barry! 
(...I couldn't have stated it better myself!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I guest you can use that oil filter as a tank...
Sweeeeeeeet!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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The pic I posted was/is actually an oil filter, I'm sure there is some oil tank out there that is heavily finned...Now I off on a quest...
Yep, actually I'm pretty sure, considering the size of it in the picture of the hardtail Triumph there, it's gotta be an oil tank, not a filter...though there could of course be a filter inside of it.
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It's an old style canister oil filter, they must have the filter out.
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You mean an old style canister CAR oil filter used as a oil tank, right Steven?!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Dammit Dwight! You just had to give us that link! Now I've got to have that dad gum tail light.
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Yeah, that is a pretty cool lookin' tail light there, isn't it Don?!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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It's cool enough for me to tell my wife that you made me buy it!
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It's cool enough for me to tell my wife that you made me buy it!
Well, there I go goin' on somebody else's S*** List again, eh?!
(...please tell your wife that I'm not all THAT bad, okay?!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Ya know folks, I DO believe I've created quite the "reputation" for this whole "fin thing" for myself 'round these here parts, huh?! Interesting Stew, though I'm not quite sure if this "fins on a gas tank" thing is "doin' it" for me here.  (...I'll get back to ya on this one)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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