New \'natural\' product to preserve your equipment...

[Peroni]

http://www.lanotec.com.au/lanotec.php?link=3

I don't know whether these guys export as yet but I'm expecting a sample though the mail shortly. I'll let you know...

It looks like it has many different uses and applications beneficial to reenactors!

[Cornelius Quintus]

Ave Adrian,

is that a special kind of Lanolin / wool wax / wool grease? Pure or mixed with paraffin (or something else)?

[Peroni]

According to the website Heiko, it's 100% biodegradeable with no harmful petrochemicals such as paraffin.

[Cornelius Quintus]

Ave Adrian,

thanks! Sounds promising!

I searched Wikipedia and the German Lanolin Society. So wool grease was called ‘oesypus’ in ancient times. It was long forgotten and reappeared in 1885 as ‘Lanolin’ invented by the scientist Liebreich. Some manufacturers tried to copy it and in a patent dispute, were claiming there couldn’t’ be a patent granted for 'Lanolin' because it was already known by ancient Greek pharmacologist Dioskorides.

In 1893 a court of law sentenced the John Richardson & Co Company in Leicester for patent infringement. The court stated, that Lanolin was more than only the result of Dioscorides recipe and therefore not already common to Greeks and Romans. (The judges’s name was Romer… :wink: )

Lanolin was very successful and lots of similar trials followed, disputing oesypus, Dioskorides’ recipe and Plinius, who mentioned it. (All ended up confirming the Lanolin-patent). Another important and very detailed scientific quarrel was about calling the ancient stuff ‘oesypus’ or ‘oesypum’ ;-)

[Peroni]

You need to get out of the house more Heiko! :wink:

[Marcus Mummius]

This could be great for waterproofing cloaks 8)

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

It says the hydrocarbon solvent evaporates and leaves the clothing treated non fire susceptible! So it should be OK for cloaks, once the parafinic solvent has disipated!