VANAGON archives -- June 2000, week 4 (#41)

Date:         Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:35:16 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ibm.net>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ibm.net>
Subject:      Re: removing bugs/was mudflaps
Comments: To: Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
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At 04:33 6/7/2000, Marshall Ruskin wrote:
> >Why can't they make auto paint out of the same things they make bugs from?
>
>They do, as a matter of fact. That's what laccur (sp?) is made from. Or used
>to be.

Little ganglial twist there, Marshall -- lacquer (used to) come from the
lacquer tree, now is dissolved guncotton or similar.  Shellac is made from
an exudate of the lac bug which they leave on trees...

:)
d


>Marshall Ruskin
>84 Westy

David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"

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