dear sheep
i have a can of fluid film in my tool box and i love it
considered marriage but my wife didnt like my interpretation of the new
polygamous laws in British Columbia
yours

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Jake de Villiers <
crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:

> Fluid Film definitely contains lanolin - its a great lube!
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > i have a jar of anhydrous lanolin in the shop. when diluted with
> > mineral spirits and applied to metal it really does work as a rust
> > inhibitor. i used it on galvanised shackles in a marine application,
> > allowed the shackle to be unscrewed after a summer moorage.
> >
> > the fluid film product range includes lanolin, i believe.
> >
> > i haven't done side by side tests with linseed oil, but i go out on a
> > limb and say lanolin works better. It really clings, and with my
> > lanolin anyway, imparts a comforting sheep smell :)
> >
> > alistair
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 27-Oct-09, at 9:52 AM, Roger Whittaker wrote:
> >
> > dear rusty seam
> > has been discussed a great deal just this year that linseed oil or
> > lanolin
> > will arrest and prevent rust everywhere it comes in contact with metal
> > lanolin is about 150$ a gallon here in canada and linseed oil about 50$
> > yours
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> >  i should restrain myself but...
> >>
> >>
> >> wd40 is a mixture of a carrier/solvent, stoddard or mineral, or "what
> >> ever" petroleum distillate and something more.... it seems to leave a
> >> greasy residue when sprayed liberally (not conservatively) on metal
> >> and the carrier allowed to evaporate so i suspect there is more to it
> >> than just the carrier.
> >>
> >> its great for what it was invented for.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> cosmolene is a thick packing grease type product used to prevent rust
> >> when you want to store a bunch of surplus jeeps :) it has stoddard
> >> solvent  or naptha as the carrier and then some long chain aliphatic,
> >> like a grease or a wax, and also i believe they add some sort of rust
> >> inhibiting compound.
> >>
> >> goes on like thick grease, it acts as a moisture barrier and can,
> >> after a few years, get really hard to remove.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> hey, how about using it on our seams?
> >>
> >> (that was joke)
> >>
> >> alistair
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > roger w
> > From Proverbs:
> > Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
> > servant who becomes king ...
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>
>
> --
> Jake
>
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>
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>
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roger w
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