RJC wrote:severs1966 wrote:zeluzel wrote:He told me a lot of stuff, but i didn't understand it all. I'm not a chemist. The message did seem to be that both genuine Rohloff oil and genuine Shimano oil is much less exotic than they would like you to believe.
Just to be clear - your friend did some tests on samples of these oils?
Yes, It was arranged between a number of us that run IGHs as we sought a supply of oil that isn't expensive. He works for a company I can't name, that moreor less tests commercially available "fancy" oils and then markets copies to companies that buy in bulk. He works for a company that has a manufacturing plant on Humberside. His workplace is full of chromatographs and other sexy machinery.