On Nov 15, 2009, at 12:45 PM, dave wrote: > Castor oil is a good guess but not the only one. It's fatty acids > are a > couple of carbons longer than the average cooking oil and does seem to > survive well as a lube in model airplane engines. On the industrial > market it is about 30% more expensive than canola. If I wanted to go > cheap I'd simply go with canola right off the shelf. Indeed > inexpensive > enough to not recover.
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