Parafin oil and it's purchase

[Kev Y.]

After reading Neil's reply about using parafin oil for choping boards I must ask.. WHERE can I get it????

had a look in my local hardware shop, and could not find it..


ANY suggestions.

Kev

[DaveInOz]

Chemists carry it mate.

[Neil]

Supermarket

[Chesand]

Now labelled LIQUID PARAFFIN - one and the same thing

[Termite]

Careful, my unreliable memory tells me that the Poms used to, and maybe still do, called Kerosine LIQUID PARAFIN.
Regards
Termite

[JackoH]

Poms call kerosine parafin(for lamps and oil heaters and the like) Liquid parafin is wot they used to dose kids with constipation!
Probably still do for all I know. Anyway thats the stuff for your board.

[Ben from Vic.]

I've been led to believe that Parafin wax is candle wax, can anyone point me in the right direction on this one?

Ben :D

Ps. I've changed my little picture on the side after noticing it was the same as Termite's (sorry Termite).

[gatiep]

Ben

Having been a pharmacist in my previous life I can confirm that hard parafin wax = candlewax and also that medicinal parafin = liquid parafin. It is/was used as a laxative and also in creams and ointment bases.

Termite: The Brittish Pharmacopea ( the pharmaqcists bible the world over) lists medicinal parafin as liquid parafin.

Kerosene is what is normally known as parafin, lamp oil, lighting /heating parafin. It is poisonous and around the third world countries where it is used for heating/cooking/lighting many kids die annualy from ingesting kerosene.

Regards
Joe


Have fun........keep turnin

[Chesand]

Gatiep
Hi from a fellow pharmacist although still in harness.
For the benefit of others I confirm all that you wrote

[gatiep]

Hi Tom......my utmost sympathies and understanding!!!!!
Actually on migrating here at a 'mature age', they wanted me to rewrite some stuff.....I am still laughing, its probably the joke of the centuary. I decided to earn a living in two other fields, after almost 30 years in the pharmacy profession. I am definately not missing it, although the income was good back there in the previous life, before things changed.

Hope you have time for lots of woodwork

A bit of 'secundum artem' in the woodwork dept is good and have regular doses.

Have fun....................keep turnin.

Regards,
Joe

[gatiep]

Wow...I just noted that I have been promoted to "Senior member", I think "Senior Super Glue Consumer" is probably more fitting


Have fun..................keep turnin

[Chesand]

Hi Gatiep
Thanks for the good wishes
I am glad I am no longer in business - am now working part-time although more than I would like. I am actively aiming to reduce my hours so that I will be able to dispense all the woodworking prescriptions that family members have lined up for me.
Regards
Tom