About OilHelp.com
Douglas Enterprises (Oilhelp.com) is dedicated to helping individuals, as well as companies of all sizes, find solutions to their lubricant and filtration needs. We accomplish this through education and the sharing of our lubrication experience with conventional and synthetic lubricants since 1966.
Our background started with the US Air Force back in 1966 while maintaining jet engines. That was our first experience with synthetic oils. Over the next several years we gained experience in several markets including the Trucking, Automotive, RV, Motorcycle, Marine, Construction, Farming, Racing, and Industrial.
We became very strong supporters of using and recommending the very best synthetic lubricants available due to the results we were seeing in the field. We don't always recommend synthetics due to economics, but if they can be used cost effectively, we almost always recommend them and of source if the application calls for a lubrictant with wider temperature range requirements then it is a no brainer to recommend synthetic fluids.
There is several synthetics on the market presently using many different base stocks. In 1999 the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the council of Better Business Bureau ruled in a debate of what is "synthetic". Mobil challenged Castrol's replacement of polyalphaolefins (PAO's) with hydroisomerized waxes in their synthetic formulations. The Bureau ruled in Castrols favor and allowed them to call this hydroisomerized processed petroleum oil a synthetic. The NAD ruled that synthetic was just a marketing term since there was no true definition of what synthetic is. Since then many oil companies have replaced their True Synthetics with this highly refined petroleum oil in place of the more expensive True Synthetic PAO's. These new highly refined petroleum oils are better in quality and performance than the cheaper refined oils, but only come close in some parameters to a True synthetic oil and are cheaper to manufacture.
There is a growing place in the market place for these new oils, as the bar keeps raising in regards to motor oil improvements required for new engines. They will never be able to measure up to the parameters of hot and cold temperatures that 100% synthetics can safely handle though. We will recommend these new generation petroleum synthetic oils in situations where the customer doesn't need the greater protection of a 100% synthetic and is not interested in the extended oil change intervals or higher all around performance.
George's BIO
George has had a dual career in aviation and the oil industry. His background comes from over thirty years in the aviation maintenance business starting in the US Air Force as a Jet engine mechanic. This was his first contact with synthetic oil, since all jet engines use nothing but synthetic oils. During his career in aviation, George attended and graduated from numerous mechanical & electronic technical schools, as well as management courses. George is a certified FAA A&P aircraft mechanic and Private Pilot flying his company aircraft from his Florida office to his Tennessee office and visiting some of his Nationwide dealers. During his airline career when not repairing jets he worked on diesel and gas powered tractors, trucks, ground support equipment, and anything else that had an engine on it.
George has been an Amsoil dealer since 1981 and he and his wife Shirley are one of the top ten producing dealers in the nation. He has attended and graduated from many lubrication and filtration classes and seminars. He subscribes to many industry publications and magazines to stay current as well as trying to increase his knowledge of the oil industry. He has been a guest on many auto talk radio shows around the country from Idaho Falls Id., New Orleans La., Detroit Mi., and several in the central Florida area.
George has had experience through the years in the RV industry starting with a 17 foot trailer, pop-up camper, slide in camper, class "A" and class "C" RV's, and now owns a 40 foot ForeTravel diesel pusher. He has converted many units over the years to synthetic lubricants and by-pass oil filtration systems. He feels that if you aren't using synthetics in your RV, you just don't get it!
