Thanks junkman, I shoulda 'googled' it before goofing it up!
Been a while since I saw those signs...
I believe Whale Oil is what was recommended, and, used for the lubricaiton of the Mechanical parts of Time Pieces and Firearms and other expensive smaller kinds of mechanisms, prior to the advent of readily available Petroleum-based Lubricant products.
Rendered Animal Fats, from Porcines particularly, were also used for lubricating Machinery and Mechanisms which were of larger scale.
I am sure any sort of rendered clearified Animal fats will work well for preserving and Waterproofing Leather, and, for preserving the surfaces of Steel, particularly if they are applied warm and allowed to form a film which can oxidise in place...even if some will work better than others.
Just about any Vegetable Oil will do likewise for preserving the surfaces of Steel in humid climes.
I htink Almond Oil or Walnut Oil were often used for this years ago.
Rendered Fats from various Animals were certainly a useful item for tens of thousands of years for treating Wood, Leather, Baskets, Cloth, and who knows what all else.
Vegetable or Animal Waxes, similarly.
It would be very easy for anyone who eats meat, to simply save the fats from Roasts, seperate them out from the other juices by cooling, and, use them if they wished.
Usually, these are used for making Gravey though, of course.
Been a while since I saw those signs...
I believe Whale Oil is what was recommended, and, used for the lubricaiton of the Mechanical parts of Time Pieces and Firearms and other expensive smaller kinds of mechanisms, prior to the advent of readily available Petroleum-based Lubricant products.
Rendered Animal Fats, from Porcines particularly, were also used for lubricating Machinery and Mechanisms which were of larger scale.
I am sure any sort of rendered clearified Animal fats will work well for preserving and Waterproofing Leather, and, for preserving the surfaces of Steel, particularly if they are applied warm and allowed to form a film which can oxidise in place...even if some will work better than others.
Just about any Vegetable Oil will do likewise for preserving the surfaces of Steel in humid climes.
I htink Almond Oil or Walnut Oil were often used for this years ago.
Rendered Fats from various Animals were certainly a useful item for tens of thousands of years for treating Wood, Leather, Baskets, Cloth, and who knows what all else.
Vegetable or Animal Waxes, similarly.
It would be very easy for anyone who eats meat, to simply save the fats from Roasts, seperate them out from the other juices by cooling, and, use them if they wished.
Usually, these are used for making Gravey though, of course.
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