Synthetic or Conventional motor oil in Kubota diesels

GeoHorn

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Aint that the truth - but there have been those that have!!!


Funny how the first commercial SYNTHETIC oil was developed FOR the flying machines - JETS

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HORTH-THIT. ( You can’t believe everything you read when “A-I” pops an answer on Giggle.)
Amsoil was never around Germany in WW2. It was first developed in the late 1870s in Germany and was widely produced during WW1/2 by Fischer and Tropsch.

The early (1960s) turbine oils used in Bristol, Rolls Royce, GE, Westinghouse, etc were ASTO 500 (Shell) and Schaeffer and Mobil. How do I know? I’m that old and flew those contraptions…and personally poured many hundreds of gallons of that stuff in those early “total-loss” lube-systems.
 
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Amsoil was never around Germany in WW2. It was first developed in the late 1870s in Germany and was widely produced during WW1/2 by Fischer and Tropsch.

These two sentences seem to contradict each other. Can you clear up the confusion?