Sick as a dog~ weak as a cat```

[valley ranch]

Father use to say that~ well~ that's where I am right now~ this is the second day```

One time years ago Moma came over~ I was so sick~ she stood behind me~ as I sat in a chair~ she had Gatron on her fingers~ rubbed the glands~at the sides of my throat~ next to my jaw~ before she was done~ I was well~ I was there~ it really happened that way``` couldn't have been more than~ half an hour~ or```

Gotron is made from oil of pine tar~ almost that very~ is used here on horses hooves~ One time when~ ahh~ that's another story```

Lord give me a hand``` Don't mean to whine~ but```

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Have any of you guy ever~ lubed the valve stem of a Gas Valve on a furnace```

I know everyone just replaces a gas valve body~ with a sticky valve~ but have you```

must have a stem like most valves~ they wouldn't use reed valves~ the stem is dry~ I'm guessing```

The valve sticks~ if I tap it lightly with a hammer it opens and sticks again later```

What's your thought```

 

[Collector]

Get well soon. I have no experience with sticking gas valves so lm no help with that.
Take care.

 

[digitS']

I wouldn't even think of hitting anything on a gas furnace with a hammer! (A friend commented the other day on the handy two-way switch in the kitchen for the detached garage lights. I put that switch in years ago. Every time I touch it I think how I don't trust it. Astoundingly, I wired this house for the router off an old phone jack in the basement. Can hardly believe I'm communicating online right now!)

I was reading the ingredients on a bottle of Vicks Vaporub the other day. Maybe, you should give that a try. Mom's family used it with near religious commitment. In fact, when I had pneumonia as a teenager, ol Doctor Todd told me I had to allow Mom to rub that stuff on me or he would put me in the hospital! Anyway, I appreciate a little methyl salicylate, Robitussin and some eucalyptus cough drops these days but have to steel myself to rub the methyl salicylate oil on my feverish body.

Orange juice, ETC.! Vitamin C and "glow in the dark" ... without any home re-wiring!

Steve
cats can be pretty dang tuff

 

[flowerbug]

being sick is only fun if you have someone bringing you chicken soup and tea.

hope you feel better soon.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I make soap with pine tar. Some people say that it helps with eczema.

 

[Nyboy]

Vicks Vapor Rub is in every bathroom !!!!! Remember mom rubbing our chest with it. I once saw the blue glass bottles for $8 at antique show, not sure when they switched to plastic jars

 

[valley ranch]

Bet that Pine Soap is very nice~ we use to buy a pine soap ~loved it ```

 

[valley ranch]

Steve~ I should have said tapped it with the bum of a screwdriver handle~ that would have given a better idea of the force needed```

 

[Just-Moxie]

Use the Vicks on your feet. It really does help with congestion!

 

[aftermidnight]

Father use to say that~ well~ that's where I am right now~ this is the second day```

One time years ago Moma came over~ I was so sick~ she stood behind me~ as I sat in a chair~ she had Gatron on her fingers~ rubbed the glands~at the sides of my throat~ next to my jaw~ before she wasdone~ I was well~ I was there~ it really happened that way``` couldn't have been more than~ half an hour~ or```

Gotron is made from oil of pine tar~ almost that very~ is used here on horses hooves~ One time when~ ahh~ that's another story```

Lord give me a hand``` Don't mean to whine~ but```

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Have any of you guy ever~ lubed the valve stem of a Gas Valve on a furnace```

I know everyone just replaces a gas valve body~ with a sticky valve~ but have you```

must have a stem like most valves~ they wouldn't use reed valves~ the stem is dry~ I'm guessing```

The valve sticks~ if I tap it lightly with a hammer it opens and sticks again later```

What's your thought```

I wonder if it was the same kind of tar, back in the 60's a friends young son had very bad eczema, she had a medicine cabinet full of prescription meds that hadn't worked. Someone put her on to an ointment I think called Kleerex in no time at all the eczema cleared up, now that I think of it it might not have been pine tar, maybe coal tar? It was sold in a tin similar to what shoe polish comes in, sure smelled like tat and looked like axle grease.

Annette