sure, grab a lawyer. Either way, you can't pass both tests, it's impossible. You can't have an ash formulated oil and ashless formulated oil at the same time.
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I understand! I'll call Schaeffers today and ask again, maybe someone more knowledgable?,??
They produce some of the best petroleum products available. Been using them on the farm for 30-years without issues!
I could see some tribologist coming up with some new lubrication wrinkle that "meets or exceeds" both boat oil and aircooled oil specs, and thus making the claim, without any third party testing or meeting industry standard specs. It may be a legit breakthrough in lubrication tech and in ten years we'll all be going yup that's the new standard oil everyone runs.
More likely is that you can run any two stroke oil(or pretty much any oil) in any equipment and it won't blow up immediately, and that's all most people consider. "Ahhhve run boat oyl for ten ye-uhs and never had a prob-lem, y'all just wasting money with your fancy oyls!" Great, in that decade you've had 15 hours of trigger time spread over four saws, you could run brylcream as two stroke lube and your saws would be fine. A logger putting 15 hours trigger time on one saw in a day and a half is an entirely different animal.
More likely is that you can run any two stroke oil(or pretty much any oil) in any equipment and it won't blow up immediately, and that's all most people consider. "Ahhhve run boat oyl for ten ye-uhs and never had a prob-lem, y'all just wasting money with your fancy oyls!" Great, in that decade you've had 15 hours of trigger time spread over four saws, you could run brylcream as two stroke lube and your saws would be fine. A logger putting 15 hours trigger time on one saw in a day and a half is an entirely different animal.
There's a big part of the issue. People don't understand there are specifications for different applications, and the reasons for those specifications. No water cooled boat engine mfg says to use a jaso rated oil, just like no (nearly no) o.p.e. mfg says it's OK to use a tcw3 rated oil.
But, there been using brand x for 500 years and it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Please. If any of these brands were as great as they claim they would do the tests, provide the test data, and be mainstream accepted by major corporations that have millions and billions invested in engine powered equipment with hundreds of thousands of running hours to back up the mfg statement of having the best oil on the market. Truth is they make up a very small percentage of oil sales and need the shoddy sales tactics to get people to buy their one for all products and bank on the consumer never using the product hard or long enough to have issues.
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'too many saws if there is such a thing." Nope. No such thing.
