[GreenKeys] Surplus "Aroma"

[Larry Tighe]

I think the "smell/aroma" is military lubricants seeping into the creeky old 
wooden plank floors in the surplus stores.  I think I'm now glad that, as a 
teenager, I didn't buy that navy radar scope and try to make an oscilloscope 
out of it LOL.

lar
K2JIA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Hilsz" <jydsk at tds.net>
To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:11 AM
Subject: [GreenKeys] Surplus "Aroma"


> Everybody who has worked around military surplus recognizes the "aroma" 
> that emanates from it. I can remember shopping in Abe Kranow's "Standard 
> Surplus" store on Market Street in San Francisco and breathing in that 
> wonderful "surplus smell." However, I've never been able to find out it's 
> origin. When I work aboard old navy vessels in Brownsville, Texas, the 
> same aroma permeates everything (including me, at day's end).
>
> So, is it originating from a specific hydrocarbon source? Has anybody 
> figured out the source? Is it from Moisture & Fungus-Proofing compounds?
>
> Steve Hilsz
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