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214234 Mike Siemsen <mike@g...> 2011‑02‑27 Re: RE: cleaning oilstones
Never be down wind of old guys on a porch!
Mike

On 02/27/2011 11:22 AM, scott grandstaff wrote:
>
>> Funny thing is, most people don't understand how dangerous gasoline 
>> actually is,
>
>  This is so true. The only thing there ever was tame about gasoline, 
> is that we are used to it.
>   Its more toxic and enormously more explosive that hardly anybody 
> realizes. Try working at a gas station for 6 months. Pretty soon you 
> will be figuring out how to get upwind and dreading that next car 
> pulling in anyway.
>
>  Nobody needs to tell you about enamel reducer.
>  If you get a good strong whiff of it?? well
> It only takes one.
>
>   There are a few things nobody needs to tell you are bad.
>
> That old dielectric oil they used to use in transformers and pumps?
>    Lacquer thinner?
>  A piece of shell or bone pressed onto a spinning grinding wheel?
>
>   Some things smell so awful they will just back you out the door, all 
> by themselves.
>   yours Scott
>
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