[SEL] Creating Antique Patina - Reverse Electrolysis

[bill at antique-engines.com]

'tis true - and some electronics companies used to ban women from assembly
line when pregnant or during certain other times because of increased
acids on the skin. It had an affect, according to them, on the fine
componant connections and finishes.

> In a message dated 2/23/2005 9:53:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> johnculp at chartertn.net writes:
>
> <<  An old favorite of many gunsmiths is urine. >>
>
>
> And from what I have been told for some reason a pregnant woman's urine
> was
> even better to brown the old guns.  Hacker Martin was a very well known
> black
> powder gun maker, living up the road a couple of miles from where we live.
>  It
> is what he used.  There is an article on his gun making in the Foxfire
> series
> of books.
>
> Tom Schmutz
> Concord, Va. USA
> Germoamer at aol.com
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