John Garner
Titanium
- Joined
- Sep 1, 2004
- Location
- south SF Bay area, California
Good Afternoon, All --
Somewhere around thirty-five years ago, I was sitting on a bench in a local shopping mall reading Connelly's "Machine Tool Reconditioning" while waiting for my wife and daughters. An older man walking past approached me, asked if I repaired machine tools, and said that he had spent his entire working life rebuilding machines at what were almost certainly the largest industrial manufacturers in Sunnyvale.
We chatted for a few minutes, and I asked his thoughts on the use of wayliner materials such as Turcite B and Rulon. He whole-heartedly endorsed their use, and the commented that during WWII his employer experimented with the idea, using linoleum for the purpose.
He then told me that "desktop" linoleum, commonly used as a drawing-board surface, was better than flooring linoleum simply because it came in uniform colors, which made it easier to scrape.
After adding that modern wayliner materials were much longer lasting than the linoleum, he checked his watch and said that his wife was waiting so he really needed to get going.
I haven't seen or heard anything about linoleum as a wayliner since then, and I'm wondering if anyone else here has heard, read, or experienced such a practice.
John
I've not heard any references to using linoleum
Somewhere around thirty-five years ago, I was sitting on a bench in a local shopping mall reading Connelly's "Machine Tool Reconditioning" while waiting for my wife and daughters. An older man walking past approached me, asked if I repaired machine tools, and said that he had spent his entire working life rebuilding machines at what were almost certainly the largest industrial manufacturers in Sunnyvale.
We chatted for a few minutes, and I asked his thoughts on the use of wayliner materials such as Turcite B and Rulon. He whole-heartedly endorsed their use, and the commented that during WWII his employer experimented with the idea, using linoleum for the purpose.
He then told me that "desktop" linoleum, commonly used as a drawing-board surface, was better than flooring linoleum simply because it came in uniform colors, which made it easier to scrape.
After adding that modern wayliner materials were much longer lasting than the linoleum, he checked his watch and said that his wife was waiting so he really needed to get going.
I haven't seen or heard anything about linoleum as a wayliner since then, and I'm wondering if anyone else here has heard, read, or experienced such a practice.
John
I've not heard any references to using linoleum