"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Anthony W" wrote

The 50/50 kerosene and ATF is an old formula for a gun oil and short term
preservative. I didn't even think about it being bad for paint but it
has worked great on my rifles for many years.

Yep, but on guns, there is linseed oil or varnished stocks, and gun blue,
or polished metals, with no paint.

It would be possible to kero down most machines, and stay away from what
little paint is on most of them. A rag soaked in it, or a sponge would be
as quick, and cover 98%, with a squirt here and there where rags will not
reach.
--
Jim in NC





The shop I once worked in had, for nearly sixty years, ordered a
Friday-afternoon last shift ritual where the chips were all shoveled out,
and every machine was entirely sprayed down with kerosene. That was a
routine that was only halted when the accumulated fine dust on the roof
trusses and rafters was finally so slopped with kerosene and it all caught
fire and took the roof right off the shop. That also was the end of all the
overhead shafting that had remained unused for twenty-five years, the lights
and most of the machine power wiring.

Oh yeah, the shop was shut down for ten days.

The local Firefighting And Barbecue Society was impressed.
(Their motto at the time was "If we don't light 'em, we don't fight 'em")

Flash