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

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