Hoppes #9

It sure beat the hell out of doe-urine deer scent. My hat smelled like that in 9th grade, and the girls always moved to the other side of the schoolbus when I sat down.

-- Ed Huntress

Think I'll switch from Shooters Choice. Tom

That's funny.

Like some of those: your a gun nut if... Like the Bambi cartoon & having one in every room even though you have one on you, case ya need it in the hallway.

Got some more machines and the wife asked me if any where duplicates.

Is it possible to find a 6 foot planer in the south left coast?

I always told my daugher to forget about perfume, just put a dab or two of hoppes behind her ears.

Her comment was that she would rather have some high octane fuel for that purpose any day. She loves the smell of gasoline and hot oil.

Jim

.. She loves the smell of gasoline and hot oil.

Many of us love the smell of back seats and hot girls ..

Grant, undisputed king of parody, sez:

Cute, Grant! Get serious though and tell me if you agree Hoppes #9 doesn't smell as sweet as it did many years ago. Local gun nut type says the govt. "denatered" it a while back and removed a carcinogen that was largely responsible for the great smell.

Bob Sw>

Hi Bob, I think the same thing happened to "Tap Magic" a few years ago. Just doesn't smell or work the same.

Well, I never smelled it before. It smells like banana oil, of course, you can go to the massage store and smell some, very similar. I am not a gun person, I only use it for cleaning old machine tools. I have never found a solvent like it for removing yellow varnish from machine tool ways and leaving them bright clean.

GWE

LOL!

Thanks, Gunner. My first genuine belly laugh this year.

Question: Not being a gun nut, or even a Yank, I'm not familiar with the oil in question. Is it anything like the sweet tang of WD-40?

-- Jeff R.

Seems like I get the girls attracted to "PB Blaster"

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Thanks George.

So it smells of artifical bananas? Like those "banana" sweets?

(Incidentally, I note with amusement the MSDS linked above refers to the color as: "pungent odor", and the odor as: "amber colored".

Someone was obviously sniffing it.

-- Jeff R.

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Dry cleaners use Perchloroethylene (tetrachloroethylene or "perc"). Different stuff. 1,1,1-Trichloroethane was banned for general use over 10 years ago. Its cousin 1,1,1-Trichloroethylene is on the shelf at my local hardware store at $30 per gallon.....Paul

Oh dear. Better have her checked for "the knack". She may have to go to Olin.

Kevin Gallimore

Who put that on your hat - your Mom ?!

I bet!

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Ed Huntress wrote:

Idunno what happened, but I knew it beat the hell outta sniffin' burlap... :)

I did. All the guys put deer lure on their hats. It's just that only a few of us went all the way with the doe urine.

It was a nice hat, too, yellow leather, before day-glo orange came out.

My mother was used to worse smells. I ran a trapline, and there were musky smells in the garage all the time. And that doesn't even count the time she ran over a skunk and the damned thing got stuck up in the wheel well.

-- Ed Huntress

You are correct Bob..I have a 20 or more year old Gallon of Hoppes..and it smells different than the new stuff. Works much the same..but it (new stuff) smells "off"

Gunner

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