Originally Posted by frameteam2003
Old british books use to say to use Paraffin .So many Yanks melted wax and dipped their chains---only problem was Paraffin in England is Karosene in the USA!Clean and dip you chain in Coal oil(Karosene)Let drip and wipe dry.Then burn your candle at both ends---sam
UHH? The word kerosene (you misspelled it by the way) and paraffin are the SAME word and the same stuff! In fact originally the Greek word for wax was Keros. BUT we here in the US have since dropped the word kerosene when used with wax and went with the British word paraffin when the first jet engines were made so the words would not get confused with each other. I'm not sure if the use of kerosene and paraffin was seperated when jet engines first were made, but that's as far back as I could find when the words were seperated.