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Please, Gentlemen, don't forget that the smell of linseed oil comes into the equation - and there's also the smell of leather; I used to frequent the Pantile Vintage Guns shop in Tunbridge Wells (now closed), and the gorgeous smell of the entire shop's contents was a great welcome. Has anyone else had that reaction to the smell of a real gunshop?
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No, I dont think so. I hvae several old bottles of 3-in-1, and they smell distinctly different.Originally Posted by ogilkes
Or maybe the 3-in-1 needs to be on the surface of steel for 30 years before the smell appears??
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I didn't imagine those in the collectors section were so liberal of taste!Usually spelled 'sados' on here. The Marquis would have been proud...
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A very nice and almost unhandeled HW85 found its way home with me today... its made in the late eighties, and smells just the way old Webleys tend to smell....
I'm almost disappointed that the original grease in old HWs smell the same as the Birmingham springers, but it now seems clear to me that time probably is a component of the smell too.
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