27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
1:35 p.m.
> I used one from that vintage in high school. The
smell was awesome, but
> some of that was because my father never used the right oil when he used
> it.
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, David Riley wrote:
Well whale oil wasn't available?
He wouldn't even pay the cost of free-range!
Alas, he thought that "3 in 1" oil was suitable for EVERYTHING.
He knew that Phillips screwdrivers were differnet from "regular ones", but
never grasped that there were different sizes of both, and considered a
dime to be a suitable substitute. But, he did somehow manage to keep the
close to a dozen typewriters in the house working! After he died, my
mother only kept three of them.