>> A while back there was an article in (I think) Modeltec about using pure >> castor oil in place of steam oil. > >Oh, man, will you regret that! >The exhaust from those little boogers will turn anything it touches >(such as your entire garage, should you be so unlucky) into a >nauseating, smelly abomination. It's bad, folks. Use only in case of >emergency, such as having a new engine and no steam oil on hand. > >-vance- Vance and others, Exhausted model aeroplane fuel with castor has a completely different odor that that of castor (bean) oil used in a 4 stroke internal combustion engine and I suspect it would also in a steam locomotive. I used to use it exclusively our race bikes in 1970s and it has a very sweet fragrance as does real steam oil, at least to these nostrils. The real issue here is weather it works in steam locos. I have searched through 5 years of back issues of the G1MRA with no luck so far, 5 more to go. GaryB
