Talk:Fuller's earth
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can fuller's earth remove tear stains from my Bushon's face?
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Fuller's Earth is used in the illegal laundering process of removing dying agents from agricultural or marine diesel fuels, more commonly known as “red diesel”.
[edit] Cleaning wool
Is there any source for the statement about fullers cleaning clothing? I've never seen it applied to anything other than the processing of raw fibers or unfinished cloth. The EB reference linked to in the article explicitly says that fulling was the cleaning of raw wool. Not clothing, not woven cloth, unspun wool. Chelt 18:41, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- I noticed this and changed it - see fulling. I understand that olive (or other) oil or butter was sometimes added to wool to aid spinning. This makes it unlikely that a natural grease would be removed. However, presumably, it would be removed from knitting wool. Peterkingiron 12:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Composition
I have not altered what is said about composition, but sources I have looked at for fulling emphasise Aluminium silicate. Help please. Peterkingiron 12:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thunderbirds
Thunderbirds, and in particular the British modelmaking teams who worked with Derek Meddings used fullers earth to 'age up' their models in order to make them more used, available in Simon Archers' book FAB Facts, (Long since out of print after the sudden passing of Archer). Wondered if it was worthy to note that it was a staple of film SFX modelmaking.
