Originally Posted by
cyccommute
I started getting my chemistry degree in 1977. Using gasoline to wash parts was frowned on 44 years ago for obvious reasons. It hasn’t changed in since then. It’s was a dumb idea then and it is now.
One of my early utterances as a small child, faithfully recorded in my mother's cookbook, was announcing to her that "Grampa uses Esso Escra to get the blossom [balsam, local term for pitch from pine trees] off his hands." Yikes.