[TheForge] Subject: Re: Garlic & Olive oil, again

[David E. Smucker]

When a mechanical engineering student in the mid 60's I learned that "EP" 
additive was very important for gear case oils.  EP being Extreme Pressure. 
At that time it was made only from sperm whale oil.  I still remember the 
professor of my machine design course talking about how important it was and 
that there was no known source except whale oil.  Turns out that with the 
pressure (pun intended) that we stop killing sperm whales the same compound 
was found in a desert plant.  That is were today's EP additive comes from.

Dave Smucker

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Subject: [TheForge] Subject: Re:  Garlic & Olive oil, again

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> Greetings,
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> I am not an authority on garlic but I have been watching this thread with 
> interest and posed the following questions at a local garlic festival:
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> Have you ever heard of garlic as a metal preservative? The gentleman said 
> no but he knows that his trimmers which he uses to top the garlic plants, 
> get coated with the very gummy juice from the plants. The trimmers never 
> rust but need to be "unstuck" to be used each season.
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> Which garlic would you recommend for getting the maximum liquid via 
> pressing? He recommended "brown vesper" so I bought a pound.
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> George
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