Re: Mildew on sails

Ted Duke (tedduke@usa.net)
Thu, 02 Sep 1999 20:23:17 -0400


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
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SF,

Salad dressing have PROpylene Glycol in them. Not the same
thing I am sure. Chemists comment?

Ted Duke

SolarFry@aol.com wrote:
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
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> In a message dated 9/2/99 3:19:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, hapilife@efn.org
> writes:
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> << It could kill dogs and cats if they lick the antifreeze!!! and they seem
> to like the taste....BE CAREFUL! >>
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> So can chocolate...
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> It's a funny thing but that ethylene glycol is a component of most salad
> dressings...
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> Best
> Solar Fry
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> Its hard
> > to believe but the author stated that spraying/wiping with antifreeze not
> > only killed the spores but set up a barrier. I have tried it on the
> > interior of my boat with a spray bottle. Its the glycol ethenol that does
> > the trick. Seems along time ago when it was first invented it was used in
> > tobacco products to keep mold out. Don't know if it would hurt dacron,
> > maybe one of you science guys could enlighten the rest of us.
> >
> > Greg