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Sprayable Wax - does it exist?
wgw:
Lanolin is very good for cracked skin. Here in GB mine comes from Australia, used to buy it in a cardboard box very cheap but its expensive now for rustproofing. Don't forget that anthrax is called "wool sorters desease".
Pete W.:
--- Quote from: awemawson on May 06, 2018, 01:54:53 AM ---Steve, pure lanolin has been used for years to fight rust and as a water proofer. After all the sheep are out in all weathers and (usually) survive !
Bradford in Yorkshire was a major centre for Woollen cloth production from the beginning of the industrial revolution. Lots of lanolin was released by the processing, and was commercially extracted from the sewer water !
Somehow in this Ecco conscious age I doubt it still happens.
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At one stage in my youth I did a bit of cave exploration. The ladders we used had tubular rungs of Elektron tube attached to stranded steel 'stiles'. The recommended maintenance treatment after use was to apply a solution of lanolin. I don't remember what solvent was used, it might have been 'trike' or carbon tetrachloride!
Am I right in thinking 'Elektron' is an alloy of aluminium and magnesium?
The 'with it' method of climbing the ladder was to insert one foot in one side of the ladder and the next foot in the other side, quite tricky when you're trying to keep the jet from your acetylene helmet lamp from melting the nylon or Terylene safety rope!
I was eventually persuaded that SCUBA diving was a preferable way to get my exercise but the techniques of getting my far from slim body through small gaps still come in handy when I have to park the car close to another car or to a wall.
vtsteam:
Andrew, I knew you had the source right to hand. Why not build a CNC sheep squeezer to extract the stuff?
I assume it's the same process they must use to produce baby oil? :hammer: :thumbup:
awemawson:
Well Steve, as it happens I HAVE just been squeezing a sheep, but for milk not lanolin ! Twins born a couple of weeks ago, both apparently thriving initially but last week one wouldn't feed from mum and going down hill rapidly. Vet reckoned Vitamin B1 deficiency (but why only one lamb :scratch:) So a course of injections and we've been stomach feeding it with a tube. It's got to the stage now that it'll suck from a bottle but not from mum.
So earlier I had her on the ground on her back, titties upwards, held there firmly by my legs each side of her neck, and plonked lamb on the nipple. Lamb did take milk and mothers milk is far better for it than the substitute stuff. I reckon this lamb can't see very well - it has issues and may well not survive.
Hope this doesn't carry on too long - that Ewe is a Jacobs with sharp horns
ddmckee54:
I'd have to do some digging to find out for sure, but I think the mixture that blacksmiths wipe onto hand forged objects to protect them from rust is equal parts of beeswax, turpentine and linseed oil.
Just out of idle curiosity, how much beeswax were you able to get dissolved in the turpentine?
Don
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