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From: Eric Wayte <ewayte@gmail.com>
To: dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 10:26:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJc6K3XvjOGS94=29B7p+5mCftsJA35RZP0y_RgvNSYi=JZ5+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180809141509.GA91112@accordion.employees.org>

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In an episode of The Little Rascals / Our Gang series, the teacher asked a
little girl what's 2 and 1, and she replied "shoe polish".  The teacher
then asked her, what's 3 and 1, to which she replied "oil".

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 10:15 AM Derek Fawcus <
dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 09:31:39AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> > Hmmrrph.... Youngsters...    WD40 is silcon based.
>
> I didn't know that; never I checked the can; but yeah a distinctive
> smell...
>
> > Real "3 in One" oil
> > (came in a small can) is light machine oil but you can still get it:
>
> Yup, useful on bike chains and oilstones (as in sharpening chisels and
> planes).
>
> DF
>


-- 
Eric Wayte

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-09 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2.1533693601.12251.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-08-08 12:10 ` [TUHS] " Don Hopkins
2018-08-08 12:32   ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2018-08-08 12:59     ` Don Hopkins
2018-08-08 13:51       ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2018-08-08 14:45         ` Clem Cole
2018-08-08 14:56           ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-08-08 15:09           ` [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was " Toby Thain
2018-08-08 17:38             ` Cornelius Keck
2018-08-08 19:14               ` Jim Geist
2018-08-08 20:44                 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-09  5:14                   ` arnold
2018-08-09  5:55                     ` Jim Geist
2018-08-09  6:02                       ` George Michaelson
2018-08-09  7:20                       ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-09 12:36                       ` Warner Losh
2018-08-09 13:45                         ` Michael Parson
2018-08-09 13:31                   ` Clem Cole
2018-08-09 14:15                     ` Derek Fawcus
2018-08-09 14:26                       ` Eric Wayte [this message]
2018-08-10 11:37                         ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-10 11:37                       ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-10 16:24                         ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2018-08-10 16:58                           ` Pete Turnbull

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