Gunner wrote:

Which reminds me..I scored some 4 or 5 small bottles of Colloidial
Graphite last week. They were packed in vermiculite then inside
plastic bags.

Whats this stuff used for and why the vermiculite?

Can you imagine the mess if it breaks open
in shipping? I guess the packaging can
absorb some of it.

Gunner

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's
cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays
there.
- George Orwell