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Post by gnappi on Nov 6, 2023 17:33:10 GMT -5
After my new Anaconda whacked the connecting tissue of my right thumb, I replaced the exposed back strap grips with Pachmayr's but boy did some of those old grips look terrible. Digging through my liquid storage area I found some "tire black" rubber dressing that brought some of my 80's pachmayr's which had grown white spots back to life.
I figure if it's good for car black tire fetishists on some really expensive classic car tires this tire dressing shouldn't be bad for $35 gun grips.
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Post by ezekiel38 on Nov 9, 2023 18:57:46 GMT -5
Good Tip, thanks!
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Post by jeffh on Nov 18, 2023 20:17:23 GMT -5
Never tried that, but.... back in the day, there was a product you could use on a typewriter roller (?) to restore the traction and kill the shine. I'm sure if any of that exists, it has since evaporated from the can and causes cancer in California.
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Post by gnappi on Nov 23, 2023 0:23:30 GMT -5
Never tried that, but.... back in the day, there was a product you could use on a typewriter roller (?) to restore the traction and kill the shine. I'm sure if any of that exists, it has since evaporated from the can and causes cancer in California. I started my career working at 3M's business products and IBM's customer service division working on copiers and typebar / selectric typewriters. We cleaned those rollers with Trichloroethylene and afterward roughed it up with a file. Just about everything causes cancer, even the Cali air which they do not have a prop 65 warning label for... yet :-) Oh wait, 65 only covers products for sale, does canned air have the label? PS, oil is phobic to Trichloroethylene and if poured on a driveway spill the oil floats to be soaked up with a dry rag. |
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Post by bradshaw on Nov 23, 2023 9:16:00 GMT -5
Gary.... until half a century ago, carbon tetrachloride was a readily available cleaner and serious inhalation-hazard.. Has carbon tet any relation to trichloroethylene? (I can look it up.)
As for California air, following the IHMSA 1977 International Championships, I spent six weeks making sculpture in a welding shot in Watts. Srayed with a friend in Venice spitting distance from the Pacific. Fresh breathing along the coast. Inland, however, there were days the air earned me a bad headache. Which ain’t what you want under an arc welding helmet. The radio advised to “Not breathe the air today.”
Rubber or neoprene-type grips seem to stiffen with the years, Uncle Mike’s moreso than Pachmayr. Of on the softer brands turns gummy. I periodically rub talcum powder on good old rubber boots, and even rubber armed Zeiss binoculars----with far better rubber than most optics makers use.
David Bradshaw
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Post by gnappi on Nov 23, 2023 14:06:28 GMT -5
"The radio advised to “Not breathe the air today.”
THAT made me laugh!!! :-)
We just about literally bathed in Trichloroethylene and other than a bit of euphoria (once use in a drug rehab and inmates wanted to buy it from me) and a headache afterward I do not know of anyone who had long term effects from it. Then again, I knew apple growers who used ALAR extensively who had no ill effects from it, but that didn't stop the "science" from dosing mice with it until they developed cancer :-)
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