petroleum based solvents.
It used to be called "pear drop", having that particular smell associated with it.
Esters are OK in very minute quantity. Handle larger amounts with care.
Incidentally, I have use ordinary xxWxx motor oil on ordinary blackboard slate to sharpen chisels and knives so that I wouldn't want to slip when handling them.
I visited an oil refinery in Bradford, PA, when I was about 7 years old on a field trip with my parents when they were in college. I remember the guide saying that Pennsylvania oil was paraffin based and Texas oil was asphalt based. I've remembered that all these years, and made my motor oil buying decisions based on it.
I'm glad to read your notes which confirm my memory (I've never bothered to look it up because my knowledge of organic chemistry is sparser than yours by an order of magnitude, so I doubt I'd understand the answer). So call me stupid.
In addition to Quaker State, there's Pennzoil and Wolf's Head (if they're still around), and I believe Castrol is a paraffin oil, as well. Valvoline might be, too.
Thanks. I have an old opened bottle of brake fluid in the garage. Now there's a use for it.
Just don't spill or drip it on painted surfaces.
It can be a pretty nasty paint remover. Don't spill on anything you care about.
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Not bad. Aliphatic chains are mostly what we're talking about. The aromatics feature the benzene ring, and the lighter ones are difficult if not impossible to remove from various types of crude.
Briefly. Since DOT 3 is glycol based, it's hygroscopic and you might end up using a water(ed) stone after all.
The DOT 5 stuff is silicone-based. More stable, but don't spill it on something you're going to paint.
Jet A fuel is diesel. Clean and well filtered.
Dave
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Better and better! Now there are two uses for that old bottle. ;)
HA! LOL, my sharpening station is in the house, and that odor spreads everywhere. It's far too strong for other peoples. Perfect consistency though ... ":-( sniff
Jeff (and why isn't it Geoff),
I spent a couple years in England, office in London, house in Tring, and still have fond memories of those trips to the 'iron monger' who wouldn't sell me that "you know that thing that you use for such and such" until I'd learned the proper name for it. He helped me develop a rudimentry command of the english language when it comes to what we call out here in the colonies a hardware store. During my stay a wise old Brit once said to me, "Giving the English language to the Americans is a bit like giving sex to little children in that they somehow realize that its terribly important but don't know quite what to do with it." I could only reply that if they'd have managed their colonies properly in the first place, they wouldn't have this problem.
Anyway, good to find your site.
Right but is it thinner than Norton oil? Baby oil is real thin, is it like that?
Read the baby oil label. Mineral oil and fragrance. The stuff used as an intestinal lubricant will normally be labeled "heavy" mineral oil, and will give more float than cut.
And some excellent reading from you, thank you kindly Mr. Gorman.
give more float than cut.
Yes but Bugs is talking about "mineral oil" as plain, which could be any thickness, and the same as Norton oil, not baby oil, which is the thinness needed. I want to know about any differences. Norton calls theirs a "light mineral oil" (I read that 'somewhere' online), but it has more 'float than cut', something as thin as baby oil would be great to find, especially without that nose burning parfum. LOL
Ethyl acetate. Have you tried it?
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