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Liquid paper

To: Syd Curtis <>,
Subject: Liquid paper
From: moses moutin <>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:28:59 +1100
Syd,

Congratulations on what would have to be the most obscure off-topic posting
in birding-aus history. Hopefully the Birding-aus team organise awards this
year, cause I think your entry would have to be a shoe in for one!

To be helpful though, if you do a search a search on Google, one of the
46,000 results for thinner for correction fluid would surely have the answer
you are looking for. Alternatively, I find Marbig's 'sidewinder' correction
tape to be most useful and a significant improvement on previous corrections
fluids. Even oldies like myself need to move with the times.

Back to birding though, I managed a trip down to Werribee over the Christmas
break and what a great day it was. Stilt Sandpiper, Terek Sandpiper were
newies for me. If only I lived down in the south of the state. I could visit
such a great spot more often, and perhaps even get an eyeball of Laurie's
Short-tailed Eagle. I didn;t see many further posts regarding this sighting.
Did anyone chase it up?

Regards
Moses Moutin
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Syd Curtis <> wrote:

>
> Apologies for a posting not about birds, but if answered, it might
> appreciably help b-aus subscribers.
>
> For decades I've been using some form of "White-out", "Liquid Paper" or
> whatever for minor corrections to typed pages.  Over time, the material
> gets
> thicker and thicker until not really useable.  I assume that some solvent
> evaporates and is lost each time the container is opened.
>
> It used to be easily fixed by adding "Thinner for Correction Fluid" ... but
> such thinner is no longer available, as far as I have been able to
> ascertain.
>
> Could it be that manufacturers of liquid paper have realised that they can
> sell a lot more of it if customers have to dispose of partially used
> bottles
> because the material is no longer useable?
>
> So I wonder whether some b-aus subscriber knows what chemical it was that
> formed the thinner?  One might then buy it separately.
>
>    TIA
>
>        Syd
> (H.S. Curtis, Hawthorne 4171)
>
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