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From: ogden on 20 Jul 2010 11:15
wrote:
> Scraggy <scraggy(a)abuseisgoodforyou.org.be> wrote:
> > Krusty <dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote:
> > > It's a rip-off, yes? I mean, it does nothing that vaseline doesn't do
> > > for a fraction of the price. Or am I missing something?
> >
> > Sure I've mentioned this before, any lanolin-based grease not Vaseline, was
> > one of the long-ago-learned points of battery maintainance.
>
> Holts NoCrode.
> Made for the job, my pint tin of the stuff is around 50 years old and
> still half full, a little bit goes a long way.
> Not sure if you can still get it though.

That's an impressively useless recommendation.

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From: Nige on 20 Jul 2010 12:28
ogden wrote:
> wrote:
>> Scraggy <scraggy(a)abuseisgoodforyou.org.be> wrote:
>>> Krusty <dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>>>> It's a rip-off, yes? I mean, it does nothing that vaseline doesn't do
>>>> for a fraction of the price. Or am I missing something?
>>>
>>> Sure I've mentioned this before, any lanolin-based grease not Vaseline,
>>> was
>>> one of the long-ago-learned points of battery maintainance.
>>
>> Holts NoCrode.
>> Made for the job, my pint tin of the stuff is around 50 years old and
>> still half full, a little bit goes a long way.
>> Not sure if you can still get it though.
>
> That's an impressively useless recommendation.

But not a surprise?

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From: The Older Gentleman on 20 Jul 2010 12:32
<crn(a)NOSPAM.netunix.com> wrote:

> Made for the job, my pint tin of the stuff is around 50 years old and
> still half full, a little bit goes a long way.

Sounds like the pint-sized tin of copper grease I bought at least 20
years ago, maybe longer.I think it will last longer than I will.


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From: ogden on 20 Jul 2010 13:15
Nige wrote:
> ogden wrote:
> > wrote:
> >> Scraggy <scraggy(a)abuseisgoodforyou.org.be> wrote:
> >>> Krusty <dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote:
> >>>> It's a rip-off, yes? I mean, it does nothing that vaseline doesn't do
> >>>> for a fraction of the price. Or am I missing something?
> >>>
> >>> Sure I've mentioned this before, any lanolin-based grease not Vaseline,
> >>> was
> >>> one of the long-ago-learned points of battery maintainance.
> >>
> >> Holts NoCrode.
> >> Made for the job, my pint tin of the stuff is around 50 years old and
> >> still half full, a little bit goes a long way.
> >> Not sure if you can still get it though.
> >
> > That's an impressively useless recommendation.
>
> But not a surprise?

I couldn't be less surprised if Lisa Riley admitted to liking pies.

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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 20 Jul 2010 13:21
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The
Older Gentleman) saying something like:

><crn(a)NOSPAM.netunix.com> wrote:
>
>> Made for the job, my pint tin of the stuff is around 50 years old and
>> still half full, a little bit goes a long way.
>
>Sounds like the pint-sized tin of copper grease I bought at least 20
>years ago, maybe longer.I think it will last longer than I will.

<glum>
My tin of Never-Seez I purloined from work thirty years ago is coming to
an end.
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