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262578 | John Ruth <johnrruth@h...> | 2017‑06‑26 | Galootish Odors |
Ed Minch posted a photo of WD-40 Aftershave. About 20 years ago, someone referred to WD-40 as "The Galoot Aftershave" it was funny then, and it's funny now!!! Thank you, Ed, for brightening every galoot's day! IIRC, it was The Mariner's Catalog that had a recipe for deck oil which included Pine Tar and Kerosene. The writer suggested that if you used this, you'd acquire a certain seafaring olfactory aura, and that "Jack was Every Inch a Sailor" would become your theme song. Way back in the 1970's, a buddy poked fun at the Old Spice ad campaign which featured a cheerfully whistling sailor from the age of sail. Rob said "Yeah, it makes you smell like old rope!" Last Fall, I refinished an old toy box for my grandson. I wiped it with a mix of Danish Oil and Mineral Spirits. I liked the smell, but the little guy didn't! Of course it faded with time. We are living at the end of an era. Many of the familiar finishing materials are actually harmful to human health or to the environment. They will become unavailable. Linseed oil and beeswax will survive, but whether decent mineral spirits will available is a question mark. Don't be tempted to "stock up", lest your heirs be left to deal with disposal. John Ruth |
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262583 | Don Schwartz <dks@t...> | 2017‑06‑26 | Re: Galootish Odors |
On 2017-06-26 6:09 AM, John Ruth wrote: > Don't be tempted to "stock up", lest your heirs be left to deal with disposal. This brought back memories... One branch of my wife's family was in the extermination business. For many years, they had a stockpile of old-school rat poisons and such stored in a quonset hut out in a small town in southern Manitoba. It eventually became illegal to transport these materals so they stayed there until a small tornado happened nearby. The quonset and its contents were untouched, but they had to get special license from government officials to move the materials to a hazmat disposal facility somewhere in the Dakotas. In a former life, my wife & I kept bees, and used cyanide powder to kill off the colonies before winter set in. In those days, it was considered uneconomic to overwinter them, as bee packages were readily available at little cost. But we moved and gave up the bee-keeping, and sold our equipment But a small container of cyanide powder remained in our garage until I called the fire dept. to ask about disposal. A police cruiser arrived shortly thereafter, and after asking a few questions about our possession of the stuff, had the accompanying hazmat team - in full gear - take it away. Don -- It’s cheaper to end poverty than to maintain it. |
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262588 | Gregory Hahn <greghahn@s...> | 2017‑06‑27 | Re: Galootish Odors |
This may be wandering farther afield, but here goes: Early in my winemaking career, I was hired as a Lab Tech at a not-to-be-named large winery in the Central Valley (CA). Our lab had a caged off area in the warehouse where was stored old equipment and chemicals that weren't currently needed, but might still be useful at a future date. I decided to inventory the chemicals so we would know what we had. I came across an old jar of Picric Acid, a name I recognized from my father's pre-WWII high school chem book's chapter on explosives (still have it), also known as Di-Nitro-Toluene, only 2/3rds as explosive as TNT. It gets cranky with age, so I backed away slowly and told my lab manager what I had found. We had the Army bomb disposal unit come out and take it away. Luckily no further REPORT occurred. -Greg |
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262590 | Don Schwartz <dks@t...> | 2017‑06‑27 | Re: Galootish Odors |
On 2017-06-26 6:19 PM, Gregory Hahn wrote: > This may be wandering farther afield, but here goes: > Early in my winemaking career, I was hired as a Lab Tech at a not-to-be-named large winery in the Central Valley (CA). Our lab had a caged off area in the warehouse where was stored old equipment and chemicals that weren't currently needed, but might still be useful at a future date. I decided to inventory the chemicals so we would know what we had. I came across an old jar of Picric Acid, a name I recognized from my father's pre-WWII high school chem book's chapter on explosives (still have it), also known as Di-Nitro-Toluene, only 2/3rds as explosive as TNT. It gets cranky with age, so I backed away slowly and told my lab manager what I had found. We had the Army bomb disposal unit come out and take it away. Luckily no further REPORT occurred. > -Greg Got to wonder what they were using it for at the winery or vineyard. Stump removal? Don -- It’s cheaper to end poverty than to maintain it. |
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262596 | James DUPRIE <j.duprie@c...> | 2017‑06‑27 | Re: Galootish Odors |
this one didn't have a detectable odor, but there was the time I was cleaning out a cabinet, and discovered a litre bottle of "100% Pure instrument grade mercury"... -J |
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262598 | Erik Levin | 2017‑06‑27 | Re: Galootish Odors |
James Duprie recalled: > this one didn't have a detectable odor, but there was the time I was cleaning > out a cabinet, and discovered a litre bottle of "100% Pure instrument grade > mercury"...I still have one of those around. Back in the 1990's when I was doing 70's vintage 4 cylinder inline honda bikes, it came with a JC Whitney carb balancing kit. I never used it, as colored water was easier to handle and less f a spill issue. I think it is about a full pound. As for the odors, some of the classic oils are my weakness, especially whale oil. I'm not old enough to have bough any, but I have worked ion some equipment over the years that was lubricated with it, and have used some NOS from sealed bottles. I am curious why a winery would have picric acid, though. *** This message was sent from a convenience email service, and the reply address(es) may not match the originating address |
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262599 | Erik Levin | 2017‑06‑27 | Re: Galootish Odors |
Well, five minutes at the bookshelf may have provided an answer for the picric acid question... I should have looked ten minutes ago... One use was for quantitative measurement of glucose levels by the Lewis and Benedict method (via comparative colorimetry). I couldn't find any other obvious relevant use, other than possibly the antiseptic application. *** This message was sent from a convenience email service, and the reply address(es) may not match the originating address |
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