Any non-food use for olive oil?

[Jules]

Isn't this another one of those situations where the new preferred tool of

2010, the pressure washer, comes in handy?

[Frank Erskine]

Nah - it's the job of WD-40 followed by the angle grinder. After all, WD-40 was designed specifically for this purpose. "WD" stands for Wax Dissolver.

You can then repair the eardrum with a mixture of car body filler, self-levelling compound and dilute PVA.

None of this new-fangled stuff for me, TYVM.

[Frank Erskine]

Indeed. My almost-95-year-old mum was curious why I had a stock of olive oil in the house. She thought I must've bought it at the chemist shop for medicinal purposes. Actually I don't use a lot of olive oil per se - mainly a drop or two when cooking pasta (either dry or fresh). I tend to use more sunflower oil, "stir-fry" oil, sesame oil and groundnut oil for my various culinary experiments (sunflower for my lubbly fried eggs in the morning, the accompanying chestnut mushrooms sauteed in butter).

[Thomas Prufer]

I like that: If it smells 'strong', you just know it'll clean well!

Thomas Prufer

[Mike Barnes]

Frank Erskine :

You can use the oil to lubricate the angle grinder.

[Mr Benn]

Use it in an oil lamp for emergency lighting.

[Andrew Mawson]

brilliant,

A friend of mine recently bought 270 litres of Olive Oil that was date expired for food use in 12/09, and she is running he Lan Rover Discovery 300tdi on a 25% mix with diesel quite sucessfully.

AWEM

[Cicero]

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It might be, as long as you don't mind doing both ears and anything between at the same time.

Cic.

[Usenet Nutter]

Or you can use Almond Oil if you prefer ..again new stuff!

[Usenet Nutter]

If you mean to stop it sticking Gino de Campo says you don't need that ..just a rolling boil keeps it from sticking !

[Adrian C]

Mix with that raddle stuff and apply to me squirrels. ;-)

[Broadback]

Place a few drops in your ears to soften the wax!

[Jules]

Heck, send that into them and see if they'll list it as one of their uses on the website!

Don't forget to carve yourself a new ear from a nice bit of oak.

[Frank Erskine]

What's a "Gino de Campo"?

[alan.holmes]

What will it do to the squirrels?

Alan

[The Medway Handyman]

Its Italian for "Angle Grinder".

[PeterC]

Sticks them to trees.

[hognoxious]

On Feb 10, 6:47=A0pm, ransley wrote: ...

Actually certain compounds from plastics can leach into the contents - this can happen particularly if the contents are oily or alcoholic and the bottle was intended for water.

Also, PET is porous. That doesn't help either.

[Frank Erskine]

Thanks.

[Dave]

Over the years, I have had my ears syringed many tines and that could be looked on as pressure washing ;-)

Dave