What is Woolfat Jelly???

[m4carbine]

I came across an intresting British item called Woolfat Jelly, it says its for, and I quote "For your WW 1 Enfield".

Any idea?

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[Edward Horton]

Wool fat AKA wool grease AKA “Lanolin” or what keeps sheep water proof.

Lanolin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mitchells Wool Fat Soap from LONDONS Bathecary | shopLondons.com from shoplondons.com | Londons Bathecary



What your Enfield really needs is the old mixture of 1/3 raw linseed oil, 1/3 bees wax, and 1/3 turpentine, it was American Civil War cosmoline, gun wax protector and your wife’s furniture polish

[Paul S.]

Baahh!

[Peter Laidler]

Yes, it is inded a leather 'soap' too. I dunked a load of old leatherwork, eye caps and an old leather No4T sling in a bath of lanolin at my local saddlers shop. Crikey. it came out the next day so clean! Even the stitching was perfectly clean too.

GOOD stuff and it makes old dried up leather so soft and pliable. I wonder if it works with dried up, old fashioned, crusty, Lee Enfield Forumers too!

[louthepou]

I wonder if it works with dried up, old fashioned, crusty, Lee Enfield Forumers too!

Good one...

Of course no forumer in particular comes to mind.

In more topic-related news though, I think in the armorers' 1931 instructions, they refered to "red jelly"? To coat the barrel before hiding it in the forearm and handguards. What would be a decent hardware-store-available replacement (I've been using white lithium grease lately)?

Lou

[Edward Horton]

Red mineral jelly is Vaseline and was used to prevent rust, be sure to keep any grease or oil off the bottom of the receiver, this will cause the bedding shifts. A good substitute would be RIG grease (RIG=Rust Inhibiting Grease)

NOTE: The manual states to keep all oil and grease off the bottom of the receiver or it will be slipperier than snot on a door knob.

Note: During the war a green primer was used instead of the red mineral jelly.



Malaysian No.5 without any red mineral jelly or paint.

[Peter Laidler]

Wow, Ed, that is a great pic and definately NOT exaggerating the state of some of the No5's that used to come into the Base Workshops. That would have been classed as 'high corrosion' but not as bad as many more. Once they'd been bead blasted, that one would have been crack tested and proof fired. If it passed, it'd go through the system.

WE used to pack them with 'GREASE, PX4' or 'GREASE XG294'

And where did you get that picture of my wife in your side review, taken last year during her beach volley ball lesson?

[Edward Horton]

Well then let me tell you something Mr. Laidler, your wife “told me” your dishwasher has excess headspace and then she let me drive “her” car.

[Peter Laidler]

Hey, Ed.... when I was restoring my old 750 Norton Commando I DID put the carb assemblies in the dishwasher on the 'bloody good wash' cycle. When she got home she asked me to " ....take them dirty old bloody carbs off the kitchen table". To which I replied "....they aren't dirty, they've just come out of the dishwasher". It's been down hill ever since

[m4carbine]

Funny thing about British English and American English, we have the same words but they all seen to mean something just a little different. WoolFat Jelly, that kills me.

Thanks for the heads up.