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Neatsfoot oil is a yellow oil rendered and purified from the shin bones and feet (but not the hooves) of cattle. "Neat" in the oil's name comes from an old English word for cattle. Neatsfoot oil is used as a conditioning, softening and preservative agent for leather.
Look it up.
Both are OK but “Duck Tape” was the original. It was made using duck cloth.
Any rusted bolt can be loosened in about 20 ninutes with a dab of Oil of Wintergreen.
Thanks—I really do learn something new every day.
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Yes, I remember it. My sons used it to oil their baseball gloves.
I grew up in the 50s and early 60s. It took a lot of neatsfoot oil and a lot of throw and catch to break in a baseball glove.
It seems like the last time I saw one, it was nylon. Also made in Japan.
My first one was a Warren Spahn. He was a lefty but the glove was for a righty. I think it was a couple of years before I got it just right.
Yep. Used it all the time to winterize my hunting boots back in the day when boots were actually made of leather.
My cousin spilled something on his bed once and after stripping the bedding, grabbed what he thought was carpet cleaner to spray the spill. It wasn’t carpet cleaner. From that moment on, WD-40 was renamed “mattress enhancer”.
Its original purpose was for sealing together sections of a/c ducting - hence, 'duct' tape.
However, there actually is a brand called Duck Tape.
No sealing ducts would be one of the worst things you could do with duck tape. It would only last a short time.
It was originally used in WWII and was called “duck tape”. I doubt if they used polyethylene back then but I don’t guess I know when poly was first used.
We called CRC penetrating oil "Squirrel Piss".
I use it on popcorn! Yum! Yum!
used it for our new ball gloves
It gets bubble gum out of car upholstery too.
But don’t use it in firearms.
I grew up in the construction business, and have been working in it myself for almost forty years. Trust me - the tape we're referring to, was most definitely used for sealing sections of a/c ducts together for decades.
It's called duct tape for that reason.
WD40 will congeal to gunk over the years if left alone like in an old airgun lockwork. I do not trust the stuff other than for garden tools.
I always keep a few rolls of duck tape around. It is useful for a lot of temporary purposes. It will simply not last when used on duct work.
I remember my Father bringing some sort of tape home when he worked at Eglin AFB. I think it actually had a metallic backing and probably would have worked for permanent uses but regular duck tape will not.
I have a really nice pellet rifle. I accidentally discovered that if you put a drop of rem oil behind the pellet the oil will diesel under pressure in the chamber and fire it like a rifle. pretty cool actually.
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