A couple of months ago, readers were clamoring for a cure for the common cold so I thumbed the dog-eared little reference book and found a few simple remedies based on pine pitch, borax, and camphor spirits, which I happily shared.
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This led to some of the first commercial ski wax ( even though they contained no wax at all ), such as " Black Dope " and " Sierra Lighting "; both were mainly composed of sperm oil, vegetable oil and pine pitch.
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I would think someone living in a log cabin in Alaska could improvise one using his wood burning stove for draw, an old window, scrap wood, and pine pitch, test for laminar flow with a smoking branch, double check by spilling some aftershave in it.
