[TheForge] what IS that stuff?

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Sounds like your supplier had just changed out the 90 wt in their 
delivery trucks.

Andy Gladish wrote:
> Dear Abby-
> Came in from the shop to warm my toes and my wife said, What is on your  
> hands? It smells so bad it makes my eyes burn!
> I looked down and saw only the usual black stuff that steel leaves all  
> over our lives, not the smithing soot, but the whatever it is that the  
> steel is coated with when we get it from the supplier.
> You know what? She's right! It's nasty. One of those things you just take  
> for granted until someone points it out. I mean, I don't mind the color,  
> it goes with my Carhartts, not to mention my black and evil soul, but it  
> really does smell nasty and I really don't want it on my skin anymore.
> So- does anyone know what it is?
> Signed,
> Alarmed in Anacortes
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