Klarinet Archive - Posting 000358.txt from 1996/01

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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:49:56 -0500

>>On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, Lisa Clayton wrote:
>>
>>> Does anybody know if there is cork grease that is vegan (ie doesn't
>>> use animal anything)? I try to stay away from dead animal stuff,
>>> being a thirty-something Californian with Birkenstocks and all.
>>
>>I haven't tried this out as cork grease, but you can make a greasy
>>stuff of any desired hardness (for example, about like Chapstick)
>>by melting together the appropriate proportions of paraffin wax
>>and petroleum jelly (Vaseline). Be careful not to set it on fire;
>>melting it with a hot water bath is safest. This stuff originated
>>from ancient plants, not animals, as far as I know (not very far),
>>and in any case is pretty mineral-like by now.
>>
>> --Doug
>>
>>-----------------
>>Doug Sears dsears@-----.org (541)343-8943
>>
>Hey- Check out that stuff from Interstate Music Supply (IMS, P.O. Box 315,
>New Berlin, WI 53151, (414) 786-6810) My band director sold it to me, and
>I don't think that it contains anything from dead animals and stuff (but
>there once was a rat in out band hall). I'd try it- It works pretty good
>and it is in a chapstick- type tube.
>
>Paul S=E1nchez
>Sanchez@-----.com
>voice- (601)268-7052
>
>
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