30 Jul
2012
30 Jul
'12
4:19 p.m.
It's since been superseded in performance by modern synthetic oils. Moebius is the big
maker among watchmakers.
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Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP
On 2012-07-30, at 5:13 PM, Paul Anderson <useddec at gmail.com> wrote:
Whale oil is somewhat expensive and hard to find. I
believe watchmakers used it.
Paul
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:57 PM, JP Hindin <jplist2008 at kiwigeek.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Mike Loewen wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, William Donzelli wrote:
>>
>>> On a related note, a friend of mine found in his collection a full
>>> sealed can of whale oil, from ADM, no less. We are not sure what to do
>>> with it.
>>
>> Look for a squeaky whale?
>
>
> I must be a bit late coming to this... what's core oil? What would ADMs
> want with 'whale oil'?
> I can't work out if this is a joke, or not. There's just enough esoterica
> in vintage computers that I'm not positive.
>
> Much obliged;
>
> - JP
>
>