Sujet : Re: Grease and waxes
De : shouman (at) *nospam* comcast.net (Radey Shouman)
Groupes : rec.bicycles.techDate : 03. Jul 2024, 19:28:57
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Frank Krygowski <
frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> writes:
On 7/2/2024 5:24 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Mon Jul 1 21:57:40 2024 Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 7/1/2024 1:12 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
As usual the obvious candidates without a shred of knowledge of
chemistry told you all that I didn't know what I was talking about
when I said that Silca was making a block that looked like
Chocolate that converted grease to wax.
>
I have continued to be curious why people that know nothing would
say things about which they know nothing. Grease and wax asr ONE
chemical chain from being the same thing. Where the hell do you
get Candle Wax from - TALLOW - which is animal fat. The
lubricating grease on a new chain (SRAM no longer put this grease
on a chain) is petroleum based but the chemistry is the same.
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And what would bring the usual noisome candidates to call Silca
liars because I reported their product?
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It's difficult to tell who or what you're talking about, given your
usual total lack of citations, quotations, etc. I suspect it's more of
your fantasies or hallucinations.
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But to discuss a matter of fact: "Where the hell do you get Candle Wax
from - TALLOW - which is animal fat" has been wrong for normal
commercial candles for well over 100 years. See
https://www.gregorylefever.com/pdfs/candle.pdf
or https://candles.org
>
Some people still make or value tallow candles. Those are mostly the
sorts of people who weave their own wool to make their own clothes,
raise their own chickens, and tell time using only sundials. Heck, they
probably use downtube friction shifters!
>
-- - Frank Krygowski
>
I should not be surprised that because I pointed one of Silca's
products is a chemical means of conterting the grease on a new chain
into wax, Liebermann and Krygowski call them liars and thieves.
Now Frank used ALL of his knowledge gained as a Plant Engineer to
cite an article filled with wishes and dreams of early settlers for
gaining the gift of light at times other than daylight. Of course
people of the 17th century didn't understand very little about
chemistry but to someone as slow as Krygowski, his useless citation
provided him ALL of rhe knowledge necessary to deny chemistry
advances of Silca.
>
I said nothing about Silca. I merely pointed out that you were wrong
in your claim that candle wax comes from tallow. As I said, these days
it doesn't, except in very weird instances.
"Weird" is a very judgemental sort of word, isn't it? Tallow candles
are still available for sale:
https://thefiltery.com/non-toxic-tallow-candles/There is plainly still a market for non-edible animal fat, otherwise all
those little dumpsters behind fryolator sites wouldn't have padlocks on
them.
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