[TPIN] Oil and the geezer image

[Steve B]

I remember about 15 yrs ago marching long parades and
occasionally resorting to natural (spit) lube if I
didn't have a bottle of oil in my pocket.

It worked after a fashion.


--- Ellis Workman <elw at workman-net.org> wrote:

> When I was in jr high school, there was a
> girl in the band who took out her valves
> to spit on during class. She took a lot
> of razzing from the guys. Looking back
> the years of geezer-wisdom, I'm guessing
> that oil-money may have been a problem.
> 
> -Ellis
>   Geezer-in-training
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Jon,
> > Secretly, I was hoping to find out that my spit is
> unique
> > and with a drop or two of bleach or some other
> really
> > cheap product, I could start to bottle and market
> my own
> > spit.  The problem is, that's a lot of spit and I
> might
> > not really want to spend the rest of my life
> spitting into
> > little bottles all day.  .....maybe I should give
> blood
> > instead,
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:13:04 -0500
> >   <jontrimble at suddenlink.net> wrote:
> >>> 1.  Has anyone tested spit as a valve oil?  Then
> we
> >>>would know why it is
> >>> or isn't a good idea.  Wouldn't it be funny and
> gross to
> >>>keep a bottle of
> >>> spit in our cases?
> >>
>
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> >>  I've used spit in the past only when I ran out
> of valve
> >>oil.  I don't
> >> recommend it since for most horns, it doesn't
> work.  Try
> >>it with a new student yamaha....good luck with
> that....:)
> >> The old horns it seemed to work fine and there
> are a few
> >>horn makers today that actually pay enough
> attention to
> >>the detail of what they make to where spit would
> work
> >>too. Wow, how's that for a run-on sentence?
> >>
> >>
> >> Jon Trimble
> >> jontrimble at suddenlink.net
> >> http://myspace.com/jontrimble
> >
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> 
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> =====
> Ellis Workman, ARS KØELW
> Grid EN33sx Olmsted County
> Rochester, MN US
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