Protek Turns Green

[Bill Ballard]

At 12:35 PM -0700 5/19/98, Don Mannino wrote:
>I am going to put some Protec in a small plastic bottle with some center
>pins today, date the bottle, and put it on the shelf. Maybe in a year or
>so it will tell me something.

I'm free of this situation because my  ProTek, when not in its original 4
oz. 100% plastic in my tool bag, gets applied from a polyetheylene transfer
pipette (a small sqeeze bulb on the end of a long thin tube). (Markson Lab
Sales 800-528-5114, item #187R0103, $18.50/400 qty.) The 9" stem can put
just a drop of your favorite juice on a damper assy mount block guide pin
bushing. If you've filled it with acetone-based joy-juice, this pipette can
roll around on the lid of a piano all day long and not mar the finish. If I
run into any trouble, it may be because I'll use the same pipette for
Protek one minute, then hammer reinforcer the next, then water (when I
drill steel) and then possibly vinegar the next. The last two are the only
ones remotely connected, but I have yet to see residues from the previous
use contaiminate the current one. Of course, at 4¢ apiece, and with a box
of 400 in the cupboard why do I think there's money to be saved here?

Tom McNeil of the VT Chapter is showing these plus a whole other bag of
goodies in his class, "Baker's Dozen of Shop Tricks and Tools". Fly him out
to your chapter. The class is definitely worth the airfare.

Bill Ballard, RPT
New Hampshire Chapter, PTG

"You'll make more money selling my advice than following it" Steve Forbes,
quoting his father, Malcom.