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I don’t really deal with automotive lubricants (other than for personal use) but I deal with RP in the industrial side. I do have issues with them (and have run them out of facilities) due to what I consider “less than ethical” marketing schemes and statements and direct sales practices from some of their agents and attacks against other vendors but that’s a human and business issue, not a testament of product performance.
(I know they got popped on their automotive side by BP a few years ago and I know from experience their cut sheets and product naming schema give a “perception” of possible deception.)
As far as the actual product, RP is as good as any, better than some, worse than others. (Fill that in any way you wish) There is no danger whatsoever from using it or any other fit for purpose graded lubricant.
Friendly advice here
The reality is that whether its oil or whatever, the capabilities of a given “thing” are always secondary to the overall reliability of a given asset. The single most important factors in any machine are a fit for purpose application and operation within the design envelope. That asset operation strategy coupled with a proper, timely maintenance program that identifies issues in the earliest stages then addresses them quickly rather than letting the trouble grow and spread will deliver you more reliability, asset longevity and lower operating costs than all the emu juice with synthetic reptile by products ever will.
Don’t get so caught up in the minutiae that perfection becomes the enemy of practical. There is no “supreme” all powerful lubricant. There is no magic formula or ingredient. (Not to say there are not operating extremes that do require certain recipes but those are the minority)
You follow that model and you will soon discover that any quality product will work.
I venture to say that well over 95% of product claims on forums as well as some studies (some have a really terrible make up and method in their design of experiments) are more based on pareidolia, confirmation bias, suspension of disbelief and downright subjective reasoning rather than a properly designed and application specific test conducted by the scientific method and falsified to identify and capture specific relevant data.
Take them with a grain of salt.
So, fear not and run your RP and worry about something requiring worrying- this subject ain’t it
