[GreenKeys] news wire photos and other silliness

[Roy Morgan]

On Jun 16, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Paul A. Pennington wrote:

> < Was astonished not long ago that the clerk
> < at one store had never heard of shellack.
>
> And some of us, older still, even know how to spell "shellac".

And some of us, even older yet perhaps, remember that the stuff is  
made from the shells of the lac bug, and have some flake shellac to be  
mixed with alcohol when needed so that it be fresh, and that a "one  
pound cut" is (I *think*) a pound of such flakes in a gallon of  
denatured alcohol. Which alcohol is hygroscopic, thus leading to  
reduced effectiveness if it sits around much in a less than tightly  
sealed container.

Boatanchor content:  any wooden cased radio or accessory that was made  
before the mid-30's is likely finished with shellac.  Such as the  
small oak-wood cased telephone company patch panel at this QTH.

End of silliness.

Roy

Roy Morgan
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