<VV> Acetone and ATF (Humor)

[Jay Pitchford]

> "Where have you BEEN?""Working under the 'vair, baby, trying to remove a
> frozen bolt."
> "BULL$..T! You smell like you've been helping some gum-cracking floozie
> PAINT HER NAILS!!!"
>
>
> OIL OF WINTERGREEN----Used to be very popular as a liniment.  Navy
>
>> Boatswains' Mates call it "Nutcracker".   Always kept a few pint bottles
>> on
>> board ship.  When a nut (usually one that would require a 3-4" wrench) on
>> a
>> ship would need to be removed, and usually the threads were rusted from
>> salt
>> water,
>> someone from the deck dep't would come to Sick Bay to ask the Corpsman for
>> some "Nutcracker".  Just pour it on the threads and you can remove the
>> seized nut.
>>
>> You can buy oil of wintergreen in small plastic bottles in most drug and
>> grocery stores.
>>
>> Hank
>> former Navy Pharmacy Tech
>>
>>
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