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- From: eliot@lanmola.engr.washington.edu (eliot)
- Subject: Re: Different synthetic oil Brands!!!
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- References: <1992Nov20.045458.14523@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <1992Nov20.193320.6236@dsd.es.com>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 06:19:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.193320.6236@dsd.es.com> sbender@navajo.dsd.es.com (Steve Bender) writes:
- >|> What's the difference between commercial type synthetic oils
- >|> like Mobil 1, Castrol syntech, etc. and Amsoil?
-
- never tried amsoil, but mobil-1 is not available in 5W-50 in the US.
- they have such a grade in europe, though.. strange. anyway, i'm on
- my first sumpful of castrol syntec now and i'm pretty happy with its
- low friction with a cold engine.
-
- >it (long ago) told me that Amsoil was not petroleum-based, but
- >produced from soya-beans or cottonseed or some such. I do not know
- >if this is correct, but if it is, may explain the incompatability.
- >As far as I'm aware, all other synthetics are "manufactured" using
- >light petroleum distillates.
-
- hmm, if amsoil is indeed made from cottonseed it wouldn't be strictly
- speaking synthetic, would it? alcohol is not called synthetic fuel.
-
- >BTW, using cottonseed oils is not exactly a new idea. My father
- >recalls during WWII that the oil he used in military equipment
- >was derived from cottonseed.
-
- well, here's a good one. guess what did castrol make its oil from when
- it first appeared? that's right. castor oil. and that's where it got
- its name.
-
- eliot
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