RE: Mineral oil in australia??

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>


Mineral oil is extremely common.  Did you check your local supermarket and
drug stores???
All of the grocery stores around my house anyways carry 1 gallon jugs of the
stuff.
I definitely wouldn't use the scented, soothing baby oil though.  May be
conductive depending on
what they put in it.

The Captain



 > Hello, I have had lots of trouble finding mineral oil in australia =
 > (brisbane). The best i could do was 20L of transformer oil for $80AU =
 > from Shell oils, however this is way too pricey for my
 > budget. Only form =
 > of mineral oil I can find is baby oil, which has aloe vera,
 > scents, and =
 > other water-laden stuff in it. Plus a 250ml bottle is like $4Au. Any =
 > idea if i can use car transmission oil or something else? Or where I =
 > might find mineral oil in decent quantaties?
 >
 >