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  I got this unopened can from a fellow at my gun club. Is it Sperm Whale Oil ?
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That's what it appears to be.I have used sperm whale oil on firearms in storage since 2001 and I absolutely have had great
results with it.You can wipe a thin layer on and a year later it's still there.I got a supply from a dealer at the Tulsa show at the time and I am about out.I will have to see if Brownells still carries it.
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I think it is now verboten.
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I have seen the same size can sell for well over a hundred buck on Ebay. About four months ago one went for 300+. Guess they figure a plastic empty hull could start WWIII but the oil from a dead whale is just oil. Funny what sets them off and what they let sell with out a second look.
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Vot iss verboten is whaling as such Joe so don't go sticking em and rendering any in the old trypots unless you're maybe Japanese. I think you can safely use what you've got for what you want to use it for without consulting your social and environmental conscience. Google it joE; says it's chemically a wax rather than an oil taken from those big old sinuses of the sperm whale rather than the whale oil rendered from blubber.
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When I got my 1978 Corvette, back in 1979, I remember the first time I went up an exit ramp off of the freeway and when I hit the curve and stepped on the brakes, the rearend chattered really bad. I took it to the Chevy dealer and they said the only thing that would stop this chatter in the plates was whale oil. That is what they used to put in the Corvette differentials. But since it is illegal, they now have a synthetic fluid they use. It is expensive, too.
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According to Ed Harris, who formulated Ed's Red, early automatic transmissions used whale oil. Dextron AT Fluid is essentially a synthetic whale oil formulated to take it's place. Ed used Dextron to replace the whale oil in old military formula in creating "Ed's Red".
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Between whale oil and lanolin, I am sure peta won't be sponsoring Ed's Red
original formula.
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No sheep were hurt in the making of Ed's Red. A bit embarassed and chilly maybe.
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I wonder if it turned rancid already?  Pure oil from Simmondsia chinensis works about as well and does not turn into a stink pile.
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