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#1 2006-08-15 15:23:18

jorkel
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Registered: 2006-08-08
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CEILING (sealing) wax.

Wikipedia entry below states it well: Ceiling wax might be the analogue to floor wax. Alternatively, if you fry a lot of greasy food and eventually get around to cleaning the upper end of your kitchen one day, what do you think you might find? Ceiling wax! Collect it up, and dab it around!

bobrepairs
The most common is that of the use of ceiling wax blobs, which look very effective. ... Before leaving ceiling wax, it is reported that some lacemakers used …

http://bobbins.lacefairy.com/BobbinMuse … epairs.htm

Sealing wax – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... term but not encountered it in literature frequently misinterpret it as “ceiling wax”, perhaps on the analogy of “floor wax” (used to polish floors). ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealing_wax

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