On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:58:11 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:26:33 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

To deodorize fishing tackle, use trichloroethylene. Comes in cans
labled Gun Scrubber, brake cleaner, tuner cleaner. This will remove
all oils and everything dissolved in them. The water soluble stuff
goes as soon as the lure gets wet.

I thought trichloroethlene was banned.

Hmmm - learn something new everyday.

Maybe it is, I haven't bought any in years.

Now this is going to sound really strange, but it is and it isn't.

I guess in industrial quanties it is, but in small amounts, it isn't.

That's according to the MSDS sheets anyway. Wikipedia doesn't really
reach a conclusion.

Didn't know that.