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Originally Posted by SamWhiteHopi
Though fish emulsion is not pure fish oil I used it several years ago to seal gaps and treat rust (make sure rust is bone dry) that is deep into a car body or totally inaccessible on two of my cars. It becomes tacky when dry, unlike mineral oil. Once the fish emulsion is dry the access can be cleaned off by oil removers and then the oil free metal bogged or puttied and painted over. Warning: Car stank of fish for some months,  . |
Oh, man. I am so super embarrassed!! I woke this morning realizing I had erred in my post above about fish emulsion. So I ripped up to my local hardware store to see if I could confirm the fish product I had saturated my cars with that had come bounding back from my past memories this morning. And yes, it was fish oil and NOT emulsion. [OK. I admit to suffering some memory retention problems recently. Hopefully it is purely stress. I can’t even mention some of the things I have been through this past eighteen months
. No kidding, if I found myself deserted on some island never to see so called civilization again I would be the happiest man on earth. But I digress].
Unfortunately fish oil in tins in no longer available where I live. The hardware man said it was only produced in spray can now and deodorised. (He was also familiar with fish oil being used on car bodies to stabilize or prevent rust). I don’t know if this is Australia wide. What a scam!!! But isn’t everything getting that way these days, anything to add more unnecessary land fill and squeeze more out of the consumer or prevent/limit the use of products or have the products contaminated with stuff or pricing raised to entice the consumer to buy an altered product. Couldn’t even buy some plain butter the other day without the price being raised a good sixty cents compared to its saltless counterpart of the same brand, where some short weeks before the prices were the same. Generally it works the other way??