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Old 29th Nov 2021, 5:53 pm   #10
emeritus
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Location: Brentwood, Essex, UK.
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Default Re: Shifting the crud?

I carefully apply dry fine powdered earth from my garden to the sticky goo and work it up into a stiff paste with a wood spill The paste can be scraped off more easily than the goo. Care needs to be taken to ensure that the powder doesn't get onto bearings etc. Our local soil is predominantly a very fine brick earth that reduces to an impalpable powder when thorougly dried. Crushing a piece of broken flower pot in a pestle and mortar is another way of making a very fine, highly absorbent powder.
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