Amber Listserv / unusual ebay item

[JOHN FUDALA]

Rosin was used to make the belt slip less over the pulleys that powered it.
You would simply apply a piece of it to the moving belt. It used to be
called colophony and had many uses in past... remember the huge piece of
colophony fished off Baltic Sea, that is currently at The Swedish Amber
Museum?
238 kilo (528 lb) and in a shape of a barrel? Most likely fell of a ship
some time ago;)))

John

On 2/10/08, tamber12 at aol.com <tamber12 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hey, good call!  I wouldn't have thought of that but it makes sense.  Out
> of curiosity, how would they rosin the belts?  Would that be instead of or
> in addition to any oiling processes?  I'm not good at imagining this
> process, I only know a bit about coal mining.
>
> Tammi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Edgars <theedgars at shaw.ca>
> To: amber at ambericawest.com
> Sent: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 1:38 am
> Subject: Amber Listserv / unusual ebay item
>
>  that may be a old piece of rosin used for belts in the marble mine
>
>
> w
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