[CAUT] lanolin in hammers

[Fred Sturm]

On Aug 5, 2010, at 4:58 PM, Zeno Wood wrote:

> Interesting.  What sort of lanolin, and how much did you apply?
>
> Thanks!


I bought a jar of "100% natural lanolin" from my local health food  
store. Kind of pasty wax. I took two fairly large scoops/dollops with  
an ice cream stick and put it in a small can, added a bit of lacquer  
thinner, and stirred until fully dissolved. I put all that in a 4 oz  
hypo oiler and filled to the top with lacquer thinner. So that tells  
you how accurately I measured everything <G>. I emptied that hypo on  
the whole set of hammers. It made them a bit more yellow than they  
were, but not all that noticeably so.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
fssturm at unm.edu
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