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GunBroker.com Message Forums - Twenty Mule Team Borax
They still make this stuff?
When I was a kid I remember a TV show hosted by Dale Robertson, I think it was Tales of Wells Fargo, sponsered by Twenty Mule Team Borax.
Being from the northeast, it must have been some job to drive a twenty mule team .
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I don't know about "Tales of Wells Fargo", but "Death Valley Days" was sponsored by them.
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Yeah thats it! Death Valley Days...
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Ronald Reagan was one of the hosts along with The Old Prospector.
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Wal-Mart sells 20 MT Borax.
Both my wife and I think it's a good laundry additive.
Just a little Borax with the regular detergent.
Real good for those smelly loads.
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Yep.They still make it.
It's available in most grocery stores, right next to the laundry soaps.
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I just remembered something about Death Valley Days.
I taught school 20 years ago with the guy who was the stuntman on Death Valley Days.
Told me all kind of storys about Ronald Reagan.
Said Reagan was a really nice person, never treated anyone anyway but straight up.
He was the star, but took time to be nice to everyone no matter how low on the totem pole.
I think that says a lot about a man.
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You can still get it here at all of the grocery and department stores.
I remember as a kid we use to go to an old guys house in the mid to late 60's that had a model of the 20 mule team with two or three borax wagons hitched to it.
I remember him telling that he had won it in a contest at the local country store in the late 50's.
Have always wanted one like it.
But have never been able to find one that was for sale.
I can find the model kits for around $75.00.
But never anything close to what the old guy had.
The mules were apox.
2" tall and the whole thing was mounted to a piece of lumber that spanned the full length of his fire place mantel.
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Reminds me of Home.
Lived not far from Boron.
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GOOD FOR WORKING WITH HIDES TOO.
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Quote: :
Yep.They still make it.
It's available in most grocery stores, right next to the laundry soaps.
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I use it myself, that reminds me I need to buy more today.
Thanks for the reminder.
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Borax is also a 100% effective roach poison.
Scatter it thinly along walls.
They get in on their legs and then lick it off later.
Kills them dead as a stone.
I placed some in my attached garage 20 years ago and freshen it annually after spring cleaning.
Haven't had one single roach in all that time.
Not one.
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Borax is also a great flux for forge welding in a coal burning forge.
It takes a lot more talent to weld with borax as flux in a propane forge.
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Quote: : fleagal
GOOD FOR WORKING WITH HIDES TOO.
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Makes a great curing agent for salmon eggs for use as bait.
barto
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Funny that subject came up.
I just bought two boxes and have been using it as a PH +for my pool.
It works and hell af a lot cheaper than the pool supply stuff.
Also pool water "seems softer" with it..made in the USA.
..nambu
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Quote: : fleagal
GOOD FOR WORKING WITH HIDES TOO.
yep
I grew up rubbing it into hides.
Got some in the garage now for the next time I want a hide to hang on the wall.
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Quote: :
Makes a great curing agent for salmon eggs for use as bait.
barto
We throw the egg sacks from trout into a bag of it.
Toughens the sacks.
Just break off a chunk to fish with.
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Makes good cheap fertilizer I buy it by the 50# bag
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My wife has a recipe to use it for really cheap dishwasher detergent.
Uses it all the time.
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I went through a bunch of it a couple summers ago.
Seems one of our client had a house infested with fleas, and a few critters hitched a ride home with me.
It took a couple weeks to get the fleas out of the cats and the 1st and 2nd floors, but
the fleas in the basement made a stand.
I scattered the stuff all over,
and vacummned it up every few days.
Seems them fleas don't like jumping up and down in Borax.
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It kills aphids off tomatoes and roses also
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