Re: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: Sticky AGFA PEM 469

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good to know..I wonder where the whale oil tale originated?

dl

Charles A. Richardson wrote:
> Dear David:
>
> Regarding the EPA, Whale oil, etc.  In 1970 the EPA was created by 
> Congress.  In 1972 the Marine Mammal Protection Act banned hunting of 
> whales and this was supplemented in 1982 when the UN also passed an 
> international whale hunting ban as whales were in danger of extinction.  
> Whale oil is a good mechanical lubricant and is used in oiling precision 
> mechanisms such as watches and clocks, but it was never used as a binder 
> lubricant in tape manufacture.