[GreenKeys] Nose Oil

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

correct... bacteria content  is high.
 
 
In a message dated 3/15/2013 8:50:10 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
nerd at verizon.net writes:

Hmmm I  used to know people in NYC who thought "powder your nose" meant to 
go  
snort a few lines with your friends in the ladies room.

But  seriously, actually use oil from your nose on contacts?  Doesn't that  
kind 
of oil go rancid really fast?  Surely there was a better choice,  if for no 
other 
reason than a panel office had way more contacts to be  oiled than could be 
supplied by a tech's nose.


On 3/15/2013  8:42 PM, Frank Carraro wrote:
>     I have heard of it as  "nose grease".  I used it to cover minor 
scrathches
> on photo  negatives.  I didn't invent that of course.  A professional
>  newspape photog showed me how it works.  The area at the base of the  
human
> nose has numerous pores that secrete oily gunk.  That's why  women (some 
at
> least) "powder their nose"
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Robert House  [mailto:k9tty at dls.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 7:15 PM
>  To: til128 at aol.com
> Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re:  [GreenKeys] Nose Oil
>
>
> Tom,
>
> Nose oil was  specified for the wiper contacts for the old Panel
> Central  Office.  This equipment was 11' 6" tall and the selectors rose
> up  and down spinning rods.  In the 20s and 30s up until the last  panel
> office was scrapped in 1984 there was a technician known as  the
> "Equipment Cleaner"  Imagine different kinds of grease and  oil and
> cleaning compounds.  Bell engineers did not want the  normal oil on
> wiper contacts, so the practice instructed the  technician to rub their
> index finger on the side of their nose and use  that oil for these
> contacts.
>
> My good friend and elmer  Dave Alm, WG9J (SK) won many bets with this
> little bit of  nostalgia.
>
> The only remaining panel office is at the Museum of  Communications in
> Seattle.
>
> Don
> Bell System  1966-1983
> Ameritech 1984-1996
>
>
> On 15 Mar 2013,  at 7:16 AM, til128 at aol.com wrote:
>
> No kidding - has anyone  heard of "nose oil"??
>
> I have heard rumors of its use in relays  . . April fool joke or was
> this actually used?
>
>  TT
>
>
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