On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:09:21 GMT, Rick Frazier wrote:



budgie wrote:

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May well have been toluene. It was often used as a cleaner in all sorts of
areas, some as pedestrian as the T/R/S plugs on old lamp-signalling telephone
switchboards. Unfortunately proved to be a carcinogen and was banned, but it
WAS used to clean a myriad of hardware in a myriad of situations.

Banned? Perhaps from use as a general solvent in assembly areas, but if you walk
into most hardware stores (such as Ace), you can buy it in gallons in their paint
sections... Pretty cheap too!

Different countries, different strokes.