Hey, just another Day in the Life of Boy Blunder. If I hadn't been chewing on that Jolly Roger while I was riding it wouldn't have happened! I've got another one about a pair of pliers, a lighter, and a needle but your wives will wonder why you fainted at the keyboard.
Craig "Keep'em Comin'" in Tucson On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 9:07 PM Craig Montgomery <[email protected]> wrote: > Touring a backroad in Central AZ. 2 day's ride from anywhere. Lost a > filling. Had a chunk of Grant's Original Beeswax in my kit. Took out my > trusty Swiss Army knife and heated up a pea-sized piece with the magnifying > glass. Pushed it into the hole. Stayed there for a week and half till I > could get to my dentist. He was duly impressed. > > Craig in Tucson > > On Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 1:10:13 PM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> I bought one of the original Dixie Cups of beeswax from Rivendell as long >> as 20 or 25 years ago, and could never find a real use for it: Loctite is >> easier and works perfectly for threads, I prefer the way the little >> squishable aluminum end caps look on cable ends, and Johnson's Paste Wax or >> the lotion I use on my leather chairs works better for my (Flite) saddles. >> >> Long ago I mixed the wax with olive oil thinking that it might make a >> good leather dressing, tho' an excessively chi chi one (don't use edible >> products on your bicycle, I say), but it didn't work as well as the above. >> >> I later for some reason mixed it with Vaseline, and then it sat for a >> decade or more. >> >> Well! I've found a truly useful use for it! Butch Wax! >> >> Ever since I stopped wearing my hair in a pony tail about 5 years ago >> I've been having it cut to about 1/2" on top and whitewalls on the side, to >> last 8 weeks with minor trimming. But the top hair won't stay down until >> it's 1.5" long or so, and sleeping on it makes it look messy. Whence the >> desire for Butch Wax. No longer made, but a week or so ago I had an >> epiphany: use the beeswax + Vaseline mix for Butch Wax. It works quite well. >> >> (No paraffin devotional candles In the Orthodox church, where paraffin is >> canonically limited to waxing chains. But the beeswax candle ends provide a >> never-ending supply of wax for secular purposes.) >> >> Thought you'd like to know. >> >> What do *you* use beeswax for, besides devotional candles? >> >> >> [image: image.png] >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/9Pbl3hNyxBM/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f7be8e65-416f-465f-b6b1-1b3766eea0a2o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f7be8e65-416f-465f-b6b1-1b3766eea0a2o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALm6aG3JdcWKgHX7bO92hLqqUs%3DJTyPrekV6BrYY_csP%2BGpHsA%40mail.gmail.com.
