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214109 gary may <garyallanmay@y...> 2011‑02‑24 Re: RE: cleaning oilstones
GGs: As a kid hod-carrier, I swallowed gas while siphoning some to get a
mortar mixer runnning---"carrying hod' on a masonry job means you do
everything while the masons only lay bricks. Or lay around. Anyway,
hurrying to get these no-helping guys back to work, I got a good gulp,
belched gas all day and into the evening. For the next few days, food
tasted really good. I'm not kidding, I can still remember most
everything I ate being heavenly... was 'petro-latum' also marketed as an
appetizer?

                         EMWTK---gam in Seattle, or Olympia, I forget

How horrible it is to have so many people killed!---And what a blessing
one cares for none of them! Jane Austen

--- On Wed, 2/23/11, docholladay0820@g...  wrote:

> From: docholladay0820@g...  Subject: Re:
> [OldTools] RE: cleaning oilstones To: scottg@s..., "Old Tools"
>  Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 9:23 AM Yuck &
> double yuck!=A0 When you refer to petroleum, are you referring to
> gasoline?=A0 I've heard of people taking kerosene for ailments
> (including, but not limited to arthritis), but not gasoline.=A0 I've
> tasted gasoline when attempting to syphon some into my dirtbike in
> order to keep from being stranded out in the woods and having to walk
> back to civilization.=A0 That stuff tastes nasty and can make you
> vomit if you happen to ingest some of it.=A0 That may have been one of
> the uses, I suppose.=A0 Not good.=A0 To quote the former President
> Bush, "not gonna do it."
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> From: scott grandstaff  Sender: oldtools-bounces@r...
> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:15:50> To: porch Reply-To:
> scottg@s... Subject: Re: [OldTools] RE: cleaning oilstones
>> I certainly have not a shred of doubt that enamel reducer
> will clean a> stone. =A0 Laq thinner is already a heavy enough
> solvent, but reducer?? Eeeeeee Ya!=A0 Take a flamethrower and a 1/2
> case of dynamite to it!
>> =A0 I couldn't afford to waste reducer. Barely can have
> enough for my> paint as it is. =A0 Laq thinner is cheaper if
> you haveta.
>> =A0 But.....
> =A0=A0=A0Any light petroleum product will also work. Very thin oil,
> mineral> oil, tranny fluid, kerosene, paint thinner, gasoline.
>> =A0 The kind of thing I would use would be the used
> tranny fluid from one> I just drained, =A0 or the leftover lawn mower
> or chainsaw/trimmer gas at the end of the> season I didn't really want
> to keep over the winter because there was> too little left. =A0 Or the
> kerosene lamp that hadn't been used in years and had turned> dark and
> hard to light.
>> =A0 Waste petroleum. Hey, speaking of petro, did you know that before
>> it became
> so widely> used, one of the early applications of petroleum was as a
> patent medicine? =A0=A0=A0Yup, it came in a bottle and people took it
> by the spoonful. =A0 I expect it was a laxative. =A0 Petro-latum it
> was called.
>> =A0=A0=A0If anyone has an embossed glass
> Petrolatum bottle in fine shape?> Please call. =A0 You ought to find
> me one Tony, they came from your neighborhood,.....
>> in the 1820-30's. =A0 =A0=A0=A0yours Scott -->
>> *******************************
> =A0 =A0 Scott Grandstaff =A0 =A0 Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca=A0 96039 =A0
> =A0 scottg@s... =A0 =A0 http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/

> =A0 =A0 http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html

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