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Bernd:

--- Quote from: Stilldrillin on July 24, 2010, 02:03:29 AM ---
Topic Bernd?

What topic? I`m too busy looking for a herd of mice to milk......   :lol: :lol:

David D

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They are hard to find at times. :)

John Rudd:

--- Quote from: Bernd on July 23, 2010, 03:52:50 PM ---Seen that done with two pieces of hard wood for the plugs (bungs).

Now, when machining copper be sure to add mouse milk to the tool. Helps with the finish.

Bernd

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For the lesser educated...What's mouse milk.... :scratch:

DMIOM:

--- Quote from: John Rudd on July 24, 2010, 11:29:45 AM ---....What's mouse milk.... :scratch:
 
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Tis a brand of penetrating oil (like 3-in-1)  www.mousemilk.com

Bernd:

--- Quote ---Tis a brand of penetrating oil (like 3-in-1)  www.mousemilk.com
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Actually it's sort of a tail (no pun intended) that you tell a newbie that is working with copper for the first time. In Guy Lautard's Bedside Readers there is an anecdote about tapping copper and that using milk gives better results. This is true.

But some where in the years since I've had those books I came across a story of using milk to machine copper. Then the question came up as to what kind of milk and mouse milk was suggested as a joke to the newbie working copper for the first time. I wish I could remember were I saw that.

It's always fun to put something like this in a conversion just to see the reaction of the readers. But then somebody comes along does a google and actually finds a product called mouse mill. Now I wonder if the mouse milk story came first or the mouse milk product came first. Kind of like the chicken and the egg.

Oh well, back to machining. :beer:

Bernd

Stilldrillin:

--- Quote from: John Rudd on July 24, 2010, 11:29:45 AM ---
--- Quote from: Bernd on July 23, 2010, 03:52:50 PM ---Seen that done with two pieces of hard wood for the plugs (bungs).

Now, when machining copper be sure to add mouse milk to the tool. Helps with the finish.

Bernd

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For the lesser educated...What's mouse milk.... :scratch:

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My usual mouse milk comes in a container labelled WD40.........  :thumbup:

David D

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