----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur S. Cohen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 1:38 AM Subject: Steam oil
>Paul, > >I used to purchase lubricating and cutting oils by 55 gallon drums >so when I needed steam oil I called my supplier and asked him to >send me a 1 liter sample of steam oil. I still have much of it. I >suggest that if you live in a fairly large community that you call >one of the oil distributors like Mobil Oil or Shell and tell them >you need a 1 quart sample of steam oil and that if it costs >something that you'll be happy to pay for it. Mine cost me nothing. >Yours might cost $5. Tell the supplier that you need it for use in >steam engines and don't go more into detail. When I needed 12" of >1/8" copper tubing for my model locomotive/s I took one of my >locomotives with me to show the supplier what I needed such a small >amount of tubing for. I really needed about 3" of tubing. The >person went into his warehouse and brought out a 100 foot roll of >the tubing and chopped off 1 foot of the stuff and gave it to me >free. My locomotive disrupted the business operation the one hour I >was there. Everyone came to see what I had. I'm sure that would >work for you too. >From: Arthur---Mexico City _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
