[78-L] Graphite?^

[Julian Vein]

On 26/01/13 18:44, Don Cox wrote:
> On 26/01/2013, Rodger Holtin wrote:
>
>> This is a new one on me, too, but I've led a sheltered life.
>>
>> When might this magic dust have been marketed? Teens? Twenties?
>> Thirties? Surely not after semi-permanent needles, or was it?
>>
>> This is a UK seller, so I ask: was this stuff used/marketed in the
>> USA, too? I have cleaned a few records that seemed to have some awful
>> black stuff on them, but always attributed it to smoke or soot.
>>
>
> But black stuff on the surface could well be soot from coal fires. It
> would come in through windows.
>
> Regards
What's that saying about "your hands look like you've had them up a 
sweep's ass"?

      Julian Vein