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Re: Shell Smell - addendum
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Bob Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:22:59 -0600
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Did he tell you to soak it for a period?  How long? Or just put it on and
wipe off the excess?
 
Sylvia
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From: Tom Eichhorst <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Shell Smell - addendum
 
 
>One of our Conch-L group (I think it was Jr. Powers or maybe Mark Bethke)
uses
>glycerin.  He (which ever one it was) advised me to use glycerin on a shell
>where I wanted to keep the periostracum and it was one of those thin ones
that
>was flaking off.  I used a little silicone and then some glycerin and it
seems
>to have really helped.  That was about six months ago and the periostracum
>stills seems dark and has quit flaking off at the slightest touch.
>
>Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA
>

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