The grease we collect
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The grease we collect
This is about how I admire the grease that is left under my fingernails even after I wash.
Some washes right away, some stays for awhile, but it signifies the hard work I have put into my rig that day.
Please share your grease stories, and how long it stayed with you.
Mine personally was what I beleive to be anti seize of some kind mixed with copious amounts of bearing grease which the "grayness" stayed on my hands for a good week or so.
Some washes right away, some stays for awhile, but it signifies the hard work I have put into my rig that day.
Please share your grease stories, and how long it stayed with you.
Mine personally was what I beleive to be anti seize of some kind mixed with copious amounts of bearing grease which the "grayness" stayed on my hands for a good week or so.
Last edited by fordbeast_80; Oct 19, 2003 at 01:43 AM.
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From: Black Hills of SD
As a lifelong mechanic it doesn't do much for me but I will tell a tale of a young man who worked at a gas station where I was pulling wrenches. His hands were always a greasy mess and he would come up front to ring up a customer and leave greasy pawprints all over. When repeated attempts get him to wash his hands failed I asked him why and he said he just felt like he had accomplished something if his hands were greasy. One day I came up front and he was standing there hiting the repeat button on the calculator. Well it seems he had sold 10 gallons of propane and at $1.60 a gallon he had to add 1.60 ten times to figure out how much to charge. After that I always teased him that he would have to drop his pants to count to 21. I don't think he even got the joke.
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From: Thomson, GA
That anti-seize is some sticky stuff. I got a mustang a few years back that I cut my teeth on as far as wrenching, and I would get just plain filthy everytime I so much as looked at it. I went through a bar of Lava soap a week. My dad would say that I just got all dirty like that cause the chicks dig it. I told him he was jealous. Even today I don't try to not get greasy. My hands are always dingy looking no matter how hard I try to clean them, and when I dont have to work on the truck for a week or so, my girl gets all excited because I have clean hands. I keep the fingernails too short to collect grease for long periods of time (so I can pick my guit-tar), but Ill be derned if they dont get greasy too.
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