Amber Listserv / unusual ebay item

[francis meis]

hi people,  it used to be used, maybe still does, by baseball pitchers.  others athlete's also.  for better grip.  fjm


Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:53:49 -0600From: ambersafari at gmail.comTo: tamber12 at aol.comCC: amber at ambericawest.com; theedgars at shaw.caSubject: Re: Amber Listserv / unusual ebay itemRosin 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.comSent: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 1:38 amSubject: 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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