On 25 Apr 2005 11:50:52 -0700, jim rozen wrote:
In article , Dave Hinz says...

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:30:35 -0500, Bruce Spainhower
wrote:
Try Dow High-Vacuum Grease instead. I keep it around for the vacuum work, but
it's perfect for any application where you can't use petroleum-based grease
(plastics, rubber, etc.).

Ah yes, "magic jumping grease", isn't it? Open the tube, the room gets
coated?

Heh. My favorite story involved a lab cheapskate who wanted to
waterproof his leather boots. He was too cheap to go out and just
buy some bear grease made for that, but instead swiped a big tube
of DC silicone grease and used that.

Apparently he developed the biggest case of foot-rot because the
silicone grease completely prevented the leather from breathing
at all.

I've heard, er, rumors (yeah, that's it) that Dow Corning optical grease
(as used to couple photomultiplier tubes to scintillation crystals) is
a right bitch to get off of, say, the windshield of a particularly
annoying coworker. The more he wiped, the worse it got.

Hypothetically, that is.