Re: LF: Bonfires (and wet wood)

["Rye Gewalt" <ryeg@sitestar.net>]

Oooops --- another little language problem as we
converse
across the pond.  Here is the states Paraffin is 
generally
considered to be the hard waxy kind of stuff ---
typically
sold in food stores to use to seal home made jelly in
glass
containers.

> > From the Colonies....
Rye

"M.J.Powell" wrote:

> In message <3A5AEACE.FB9B17B4@sitestar.net>, Rye Gewalt
> <ryeg@sitestar.net> writes
> >I seem to recall that the old timers (I'm one myself
> >now) used to boil dry
> >wood in paraffin to make insulators for open wire
> >feeders.
>
> Paraffin Wax, not the liquid form, I think from memory.
>
> Mike
> --
> M.J.Powell