"Ballistol is made from medical grade mineral oil, alkaline salts of oleic acid, several alcohols, Benzyl Acetate and oil from vegetable seeds. The smell comes from medicinal Anethole oil, which is derived from the Anise plant. Ballistol is biodegradable and non-toxic" And I always thought it smelled like whale oil. David Love ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 9:38:37 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [CAUT] Teflon AND verdigris? > Ballistol is a vegetable oil product. I don't want to put vegetable oil > on a piano. It travels, collects dust and dries up getting gummy > eventually. It needs solvents to keep it spreadable > > Keith Roberts When did Callisto quit being a paraffin oil mix? But then maybe anything petroleum based is ultimately a vegetable oil derivative, if you squint just right? Against all odds, I seem to have missed the memo again. Ron N -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20081106/01de17d5/attachment.html
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