[GreenKeys] NASSAU Solder C Rosin Core

[Roy Morgan]

At 11:31 AM 11/16/2004, John Foust wrote:
>At 03:34 AM 10/31/2004, Craig Sawyers wrote:
> >> I just put up 14 ounces of this stuff to see who will bid on it.  Bob
> >> Camp owes me $2.40 for doing this.
> >>
> >> <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5728977019>

Puzzled:

The write up says:

"Manufactured by the NASSAU Recycling Corporation in Staten Island, New 
York, a division of Western Electric for the Bell System. ..."

Was Nassau a division of WE, or just a supplier?  (Not that it really 
matters...)


" ...By the way... If you know of anyone having a stock of the Western 
Electric Telephone Ointment let me know. It was GREAT STUFF! "

What IS/WAS "Telephone Ointment"?  Is it anything like Udder Cream?

(For further information, see <http://www.uddercream.com/products.html>)


>  ... four-pound reel currently at $280, item 5727645209.  Or
> >5726324575 which closed at $799 for 5lbs, and 572514465 at $405 for 1.5lbs.
>
>My hair is not yet gray, so pardon me..  but why the high prices?
>Is this solder made of silver?

I think there is no silver content. The stuff is made of Unobtainium, 
however. And, it's labelled "Western Electric", at least in lore if not in 
fact.

Roy
who never used any

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