[mirageII]

Originally Posted by sn0wstorm

Sorry guys, I just don't know what an Apotheke is in english *lol*

That will be "Chemist"

[dad604]

Originally Posted by Faust

Hi. I live in Germany and am not sure what kind of oil I need to buy to oil my T-molds. What exactly is Mineral Oil?



Thanks!

Baby oil will do, mineral oil with fragance. You can get baby oil without fragance.

Here in Canada, we use sperm whale oil or if that is not available polar bear oil........jk

[davejs1671]

You can find it in drug stores in the laxative section.

[dinghovery]

I bought some to oil some Paulsons earlier this year, but I STILL can't bring myself to voluntarily ingest (i.e. drink) any of that stuff, laxative or not!!!

[Felix]

Till now i have used oil for weapons (waffenöl) to oil my chips. You can get it in every superstore (baumarkt)!

But i havent been able to find out of what that oil really contains.

[Faust]

Well, my Sister is coming to visit for Oktoberfest, and she is bringing me some mineral oil. Thanks for all the tips though!!

BTW: Apotheke = Pharmacy.

[ipgyst]

The technical description of mineral oil is "a mixture of aliphatic, naphthalenic, and aromatic liquid hydrocarbons that derive from petroleum." In layman's terms, it comes from crude oil, and it could be described as a hodge-podge of non-toxic stuff from crude oil that we can't burn as fuel very easily and has little other use.

We get lots of chemicals from crude oil. Among the lighter hydrocarbons we get butane (4 carbon atoms, or C4). Gasoline is C8 (octane!). C10 to C14 is diesel fuel, C12-C15 is kerosene, jet fuel and motor oil are in there somewhere, and C20 to C40 is wax/paraffin (like in candles). Beyond that you get tar, asphalt, and my personal favorite Bunker C.

Mineral Oil is a mixture of C15s to C40s. It's cheap because the refining process makes a lot of it. And now you know where it comes from and what's in it, sort of.