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Posted by williamf on February 04, 2004 at 06:29:04 from (66.82.9.20):
In Reply to: Re: Parts washer posted by Michael Soldan on February 03, 2004 at 20:41:40:
We used varsol at my granddad's tractor shop, too. We had three 55 gal drums on their sides on a rack. I think one was for kerosene for the salamanders and the steam jenny. We used 5 gallon buckets cut off 6 inches high and the edges bent over for parts washers. (Maybe they were just buckets and I was the parts washer, 'pends on how you look at it.) I remember one time somebody sold Willis a box of a new kind of rags, blue paper reinforced with nylon or some such, kinda like modern Shop Towels. I thought they were great, everybody else seemed to think "Buy rags? Dumbest thing I ever heard." Wm
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