Talbot
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Like most people I have sometimes not treated my tools in a manner conducive to rust free existance. I came across the following tip on a woodworking forum and thought others might like to know:
Place a block of camphor into the tool box. It works by displacing moist air and coating the tools with a very thin layer of camphor as the blocks sublimate. Basically, prevention of rust is simply a matter of keeping water and air away from the metal. Handling the tools with sweaty hands and not wiping them down with an oily rag before putting them in the toolbox is a poor practice that even camphor cannot overcome.
This is not a practice for people with young children. Camphor has a strong, penetrating, fragrant odor, a bitter, pungent taste and is slightly cold to the touch like menthol leaves. Locally, it is an irritant, numbs the peripheral sensory nerves and is slightly antiseptic. It is not readily absorbed by the mucous membrane, but is easily absorbed by the subcutaneous tissue. Camphor combines with the body with glucuronic acid, and in this condition is voided by the urine. In Mankind, it causes convulsions from the effect it has on the motor tract of the brain. It stimulates the intellectual centers and prevents narcotic drugs from taking effect, but in cases of nervous excitement, it has a soothing and quieting result. Camphor has been proven valuable as an excitant in cases of heart failure, whether due to diseases or as a result of infectious fevers, such as typhoid and
pneumonia, not only in the latter case as a stimulant to circulation, but to prevent the growth of pneumococci. Camphor is used in medicine internally for its calming influence in hysteria, nervousness and neuralgia and for serious diarrhea, and externally as a counter-irritant and a rubefacient in rheumatisms, sprains, bronchitis, for inflammatory conditions and sometimes in conjunction with menthol and phenol for heart failure. <font color="red">It can be poisonous in large doses, especially to children.</font> Camphor is also used to expel moths and other insects and as an air disinfectant and purifier.
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Place a block of camphor into the tool box. It works by displacing moist air and coating the tools with a very thin layer of camphor as the blocks sublimate. Basically, prevention of rust is simply a matter of keeping water and air away from the metal. Handling the tools with sweaty hands and not wiping them down with an oily rag before putting them in the toolbox is a poor practice that even camphor cannot overcome.
This is not a practice for people with young children. Camphor has a strong, penetrating, fragrant odor, a bitter, pungent taste and is slightly cold to the touch like menthol leaves. Locally, it is an irritant, numbs the peripheral sensory nerves and is slightly antiseptic. It is not readily absorbed by the mucous membrane, but is easily absorbed by the subcutaneous tissue. Camphor combines with the body with glucuronic acid, and in this condition is voided by the urine. In Mankind, it causes convulsions from the effect it has on the motor tract of the brain. It stimulates the intellectual centers and prevents narcotic drugs from taking effect, but in cases of nervous excitement, it has a soothing and quieting result. Camphor has been proven valuable as an excitant in cases of heart failure, whether due to diseases or as a result of infectious fevers, such as typhoid and
pneumonia, not only in the latter case as a stimulant to circulation, but to prevent the growth of pneumococci. Camphor is used in medicine internally for its calming influence in hysteria, nervousness and neuralgia and for serious diarrhea, and externally as a counter-irritant and a rubefacient in rheumatisms, sprains, bronchitis, for inflammatory conditions and sometimes in conjunction with menthol and phenol for heart failure. <font color="red">It can be poisonous in large doses, especially to children.</font> Camphor is also used to expel moths and other insects and as an air disinfectant and purifier.
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