Prussian Blue

I don't have a doubt that a single dab of that stuff will easily cover the earth. :-)

Harold

"Harold and Susan Vordos" wrote in news:6k1ki.36362$ snipped-for-privacy@newsreading01.news.tds.net:

AMEN to that!

Tis why it's a favorite of the jokesters....a single dab under a toolbox drawer pull makes for an almost complete full-sized smurf in short order. (Also works well for: Safety glasses nosepiece, ear piece or top rim, door knobs, telephone earpiece, rubber glove fingertips, etc) Not that I would know anything about those uses....

My uncle told me that where he used to work, the only container of prussian blue allowed in the plant, under penalty of of termination, was in the HR managers desk drawer.

Wes

I keep mine tube in a ziplock bag. Even though the tube isn't broken it seems to get all over everything. When I use it I wear those orange "refinishing gloves" that Menard's and Fleet Farm sell. There doesn't seem to be any way to spread it around that is better than using a finger. But it sure is worth it when needed. I have always wondered if a tube of blue oil paint from the artists supply store wouldn't work as well. When I bought a small tube some years ago, it took weeks to get here because it is considered hazardous material.

Pete Stanaitis

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Wes wrote:

You guys should really look into getting water-soluble bearing blue. Same thing, washes off with soap and water really easily.

Regards,

Robin

It also works great on the underside of a car door handle...

A buddy of mine uses it to mark the high spots for scraping. He smears it on a surface plate... With his hand... Then he splashes a bit of the magic solvent on and it wipes right off... The magic solvent is WD-40.

Jerry

Anthony, That is GREAT!!!! I have an apprentice who is constantly terrorizing me (I made the mistake of showing him how to make acetylene bombs and a few other things). Last week I was teaching him some simple GTAW stuff and he made a 4x4 inch box and welded my car keys in it and left it on my desk. Alas, come 16:30hrs and time to go home, I'm going all over my desk and tool chests to find my keys only to see him and some of the crew rolling around laughing hysterically when I found the note "Shake the box, Rob" on my desk. Little bastard did a good job and do you have any idea how hard it is to cut it open with a band-saw and not chop my keys or remote in half! I'm gonna get the toilet seat and every thing he touches with Machinist's blue tomorrow morning!!!!! This is an idea I never thought of!! I'll be glad to help him get it off with some 60 grit! THANKS A MILLION! Payback is a bitch!

All the best,

Rob Fraser

PS: I will be posting some pics of a 640 CID that blew apart on the dyno and stuck the blower and top-end through a cinder block wall in the dyno cell Thus. (SJEW crew are aware of some of the exploits in the new shop) One hell of a fire and explosion. Dumped all the Halon tanks and did some major remodeling!) It will be on robfraser.net/racing_engines. asap. 60k engine reduced to garbage. Iggy- need some junk to mill on? This was the big blown/injected motor in the front of the old shop.

Fraser Competition Engines Chicago, Il.

I have a bottle of dapra rubbing ink that probably would have worked also. I wonder if that is the same thing?

Wes

Jerry sez: "> A buddy of mine uses it to mark the high spots for scraping."

Oh! Wow! Pretty resourceful if your buddy figured that for himself.

Bob (doesn't belabor the obvious) Swinney

He smears it

But whats the fun of that?

The Blue Badge of Courage....

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

"RDF" wrote in news:homdnT4YBMpQlgzbnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

Hehe...have some fun. There are a hundred other ways I've seen it used to get someone blue. Probably the most effective is in situation where cotton gloves are worn under rubber gloves, such as in production shops. When the victim lays the gloves down and goes to break, a little dab in the tip of each finger of the rubber glove is all it takes. They come back and put on the cotton gloves, then the rubber, but they will never notice the prussian blue in the tips because it won't automatically contact the skin and by the time it does, it's up to body temp. Another couple of hours of wearing that mess around....well...you can imagine...

Tawn, waxing poetically goes, "We buy a 55 gal drum of the stuff at a time, it lasts for months and months!"

Yeah and that's part of the problem. The whole damned country turned blue and we can't tell the good un's from the bad un's. Also, some of that 55 gal. got splashed on Mexico and mixed with tequila and turned green . . . now we've got a green problem with them. Bad Tawm, bad !!

Bob (my neighbors got green cards) Swinney

55 gallons of blue? try using a milling machine on the rough castings before scraping them. :-)

Mark Rand RTFM

OK, OK, but the point I was trying to make was that WD-40 cleans up the Prussian blue mess very, very well...

Jerry

We buy a 55 gal drum of the stuff at a time, it lasts for months and months!

Sorry Jerry, I couldn't resist. You make a good point re. WD-40. As I understand it, the active ingredient in WD-40 is kerosene, about the same as is in Liquid Wrench. Both are sometimes recommended as cuttings fluids for aluminum.

Back when I was an apprentice almost everyone used "prussian blue" oil paint from the art store. A tube lasts for years.

Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeatgmaildotcom)

You can get genuine Prussian blue oil paint there, and it works for marking and scraping, but the carrier is of course a drying oil like linseed and not what you want to be spreading on your layout tools and machines. Any residue will polymerize and be very difficult to get off. This permanency is why artists like it.

The Oceans were green like the seas. Tom came along and bam!! The ocean turned blue.

Mart> Tawn, waxing poetically goes, "We buy a 55 gal drum of the stuff at a time,