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Location: PDX | Well, i read the advise here for using Naptha, WD40, and Mineral Oil, so i headed out for supplies.
Question, what the hell is Naptha and where do you find it? I found a bar of soap called Fels-Naptha, but it says it "contains no naphthalene". Is this the stuff you folks are using? Or is it something else i need a hazardous material handling licence for?
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Location: Keller, TX | Don't know where PDX is, but in the states you can get it at any Home Depot or Lowes. Look for the paint section, find the paint thinner, it should be sitting right next to it. |
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Location: closely held secret | Pay attention, Big Money. PDX is Portland, Oregon. The home town of my youth. |
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Location: Berkeley, CA | I grew up in Portland, too. Great place. |
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Location: SoCal | Well, i read the advise here for using Naptha, WD40, and Mineral Oil, so i headed out for supplies. Are you sure that wasn't NAPA - a good bottle of wine always helps. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | naphtha is a distallate somewhere between gasoline and benzene. Some people use it as lighter fluid or as fuel. Naphtha's good because it doesn't smell as bad as mineral spirits and evaporates fast.
You can buy wd-40 at Costco. You can get 5 huge cans at costco for the price of 1 little one at your local hardware store. You can give away the extra cans as presents. Your dad will love you.
Naphtha is cheap at either the local hardware store or home depot. It'll be near the mineral spirits. Don't buy the soap. It come in quart cans.
Mineral oil you get at the drug store, like walgreens. Don't confuse it with baby oil, you want mineral oil. It's a cheap. The kind you use for a chopping block or take as a laxitive. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Naptha is easy to find...its the fluid used in Zippo lighters. Even in today's smoke-free world, you should be able to find it at any drugstore.
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Location: Keller, TX | Originally posted by Waskel:
Pay attention, Big Money. PDX is Portland, Oregon. The home town of my youth. Don't let the name fool you. I'm so broke, I can't even pay attention.
Sorry, never worked in the airline industry. Not a traveler. Never learned the airport codes.
Not sure I want to picture Waskel as a youth. :D |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Maybe I'm just not well informed, but it doesn't sound to me like I'd want to put naptha on the fingerbd of my guitars. I can understand mineral oil, lemon oil...but someone explain to me how naptha could benefit bare wood. John <>{ |
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Location: North Idaho | Isn't it just to remove finger oil? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I believe the sequence is 1) remove finger grime with naptha, 2) clean fret wire with wd40, 3) treat fingerboard with mineral oil. Dave
PS If you wash your hands before playing and play a fretless bass, you can skip steps 1 and 2. |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by Tupperware:
If you wash your hands before playing and play a fretless bass, you can skip steps 1 and 2. Ok, now, just a minute -- i religously wash my hands before i pick up any of my guitars. Wipe them down with a French linen cloth between each song, and kiss the headstock in praise of the gift it has bestowed at the end of each set. But hey, i'm Mediterainian by genetics and i weep oil from my skin, and i also drool beer every once in a while. I think a good cleaning is in order every few years under that punishment, no? ;)
I just want to do it right.
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Jacob:
I grew up in Portland, too. Great place. Don't get me wrong - I grew up in Portland because I was born there and didn't have a choice. It's run by a bunch of liberal idiots who could buy a 5 cent candy with a ten dollar bill and still wind up owing money.
I work there because that's where my job is, but I live 40 miles away... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I use it in this order:
1)WD-40 to clean fretwire
2)naphtha to clean off the frets and to remove the wd-40
3)mineral oil. |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | Don't get me wrong - I grew up in Portland because I was born there and didn't have a choice. It's run by a bunch of liberal idiots who could buy a 5 cent candy with a ten dollar bill and still wind up owing money.
I work there because that's where my job is, but I live 40 miles away... Gee Waskel....didn't know you felt that way about Portland....well....SO DO I!!!.
I only have to go there every couple of months to work (I have offices in Lake Oswego, Tigard and Vancouver and a new one opening down town) and that is too much. I was invited to move there. Sure, trade my 2 stop lights to work, and $130K
new house in Hermiston for a $300K old house and an hour commute. Makes perfect sense to me...NOT. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Waskel....when he was a little Waskel....
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Location: closely held secret | Brad! Where did you find that picture from my 'island theme' birthday party? Notice I had pretty 'short' guest list.
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| "Actually almost made me laugh and wake the rest of the house up. When I was 6 or 7, my sisters thought it was hilarious to slick my hair down (except for the cowlick), and make me look like Alfalfa."
This explains sooooooooooooooo much. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Waskel:
When I was 6 or 7, my sisters thought it was hilarious to slick my hair down (except for the cowlick), and make me look like Alfalfa. he's kept the look however... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ... The saiilor suit too |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I can. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Hey...I sure as heck know what it's like. You think your having a nice exchange of life experiences with friends and the next thing you know...your in a french maids uniform! |
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Location: closely held secret | Sure, sure... go ahead, make fun... But look who's got all the girls.
...seems to me Buckwheat and Spanky were always jealous of me, too. Say... how old did you guys say you were? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Those aren't your sisters? |
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Location: closely held secret | No, they're yours. |
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| Any sharper and you'll cut yourself my little furry friend.... Brilliant. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Waskel, you sound like my father. He's almost 80. He moved there by choice, though. |
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Location: SoCal | Portland was a good place until so many Californians moved up there. Grade school in Oswego (later Lake Oswego), high school in Mt. Angel (about 16 miles from Salem), then University of Oregon. Would still be living in the Willamette Valley if I hadn't moved down for my wife and daughter to be close to family.
Once Nike started growing and Intel moved in, no stopping the crazy Californians. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Tony, you may have gone to school in Mt. Angel under the supervision of my uncle, Irv Miller. He taught there and worked up to superintendent of schools. He had a nice home on the edge of Mt. Angel's golf course. I enjoyed going out to his house when I was a kid.
We were about a week away from settling there in 1978 and would probably still be there, but we decided to see if I could get a job in Idaho instead. I'm still at the same job. |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by Tony Calman:
Portland was a good place until so many Californians moved up there. Grade school in Oswego (later Lake Oswego), high school in Mt. Angel (about 16 miles from Salem), then University of Oregon. Would still be living in the Willamette Valley if I hadn't moved down for my wife and daughter to be close to family.
Once Nike started growing and Intel moved in, no stopping the crazy Californians. They are still flooding the area. The Silicon Valley melt down pushed another wave of them up here. Some of them flocked to Bend, and that place is now trashed imho.
With Bay Area real estate profits in their pockets they were buying houses up here for cash and ramping up the housing market. Really not much that can be done about it. It is just tough for me to watch young kids and families just starting out getting pushed out of owning their own home in their home town.
Probably the same story could be told across the nation.
Oh, BTW, found the naptha, thanks folks.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It's the same here. We run about 30% of immigrants from California, but the number of California homebuyers is much higher than that because there is a lot of buying and selling by people who never live in the house. House prices went up 25-35% in the last year and a lot of the first timers are priced out of the market. |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | I'm happy I moved to Eugene. Portland property values had nearly doubled in some of the areas that couldn't give a house away, 10 years ago. I was transferred her in 04 with my work, so the move didn't cost a thing. My kids love it here. The schools are awesome.
I was looking to move to the Oregon City area and out of Portland right before the job transfer. I do love to be in the sticks but close to a little shopping. We even looked in Colton, OR. near Waskel's wabbit hole. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I undestand why you ended up in Eugene...
Careful with That Axe.... |
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Location: SoCal | When I moved down in late 1984, had been living in Willamette, south of West Linn/Oregon City.
Could hook up the boat and be on the river in 5 minutes. Yet, no problem getting to my main office in Vancouver (agency manager for Standard of Oregon) or the 4th Landing Support Battalion in Seattle or VMAQ-4 (the electronic warfare squadron with the Seahawks logo on the tail) in Whidby Island.
Absolutely love the Eugene area when I went to school. Absolutely hate Cox Cable's feud with Fox - can't evem order Pac-10 to watch the Ducks.
Actually had planned to buy 12 acres (with a couple of llamas) before I ended up moving to SoCal. Had a barn that would have been a great James Taylor style guitar studio. |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | I was worried when Duck season hit here. We were lucky to get Dish and the programing is out of the east coast so we are never blocked out. :D
I use to cuss out comcast every b-ball season. My son and I went to a lot of Mariners games and were big fans. It was always black-out season in PDX. So one year, I think I am really smart and saved to buy the season ticket deal and it just so happened that Fox had made some deal and they were showing them all. I got my money back. :rolleyes:
I am hoping to get in some good fishing this summer and swimming. I love the big Sky and all the outdoor stuff. The first year I lived here, I just worked 14 hour days. I am ready to play!
Eugene is cool. It's still a small red-neck town yet everyone is pretty friendly and lots of diversity to keep it interesting but no problems.
Nuthin like where I grew-up in the Rogue Valley. |
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Location: SoCal | gee, I remember as very liberal, especially when you compare with the outlying towns. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Pokeypup:
Eugene is cool. It's still a small red-neck town yet everyone is pretty friendly and lots of diversity to keep it interesting but no problems. Pokey, you have an interesting perspective. Eugene is just about the most liberal city in Oregon. |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | Originally posted by Tony Calman:
gee, I remember as very liberal, especially when you compare with the outlying towns. Yes, I guess Eugene is still considered very, very liberal.
The diff is that your neighbor/s who drive a pick-up with a gun rack and sports 100 NRA stickers, (the majority) wave happily at the dude out wattering his lawn with blue hair. :D
I like that.
In PDX they claim to be tolorant and welcome all, but here, you really have to keep an open mind. I think the size of the city makes it that way. There is no where to hide.
It's a good thing cuz it allows folks to see that others have a lot to offer if you don't pre-judge them by their appearance. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My daughter is thinking about moving there. That should tip it even further to the left. |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | Hey! :D
My hair happens to be a very nice shade of blue. ;) |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | Originally posted by Waskel:
I had you pegged for younger than that... :cool: The spikes hide the gray. |
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