[CAUT] lanolin in hammers

[Greg Newell]

That would have been anhydrous lanolin, right? That's the same stuff I
ordered from the drug store to make V.J. lube. Does it come in another form?

Greg Newell
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-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred
Sturm
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 12:13 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] lanolin in hammers


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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