Blinker fluid

DeltaRed

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Been reading about this wonderful,magical lubricant.Will it fix my tractor? what is it made from? Who makes it? More importantly,WHERE do I get it!!
 
(quoted from post at 07:52:19 11/16/17) Been reading about this wonderful,magical lubricant.Will it fix my tractor? what is it made from? Who makes it? More importantly,WHERE do I get it!!

I'm not entirely sure of what it is made of, but it works especially well for stopping oil leaks from the headlights.
 
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It says "Harmful if swallowed". Will it make your eyes blink uncontrollably? Is the condition permanant?
 
I think it is sold next to the muffler belts, and by the cans of compression. LOL Couldn't resist....LOL
Kow Farmer Kurt
 
Hey now,I need that for the sticky flashers on my 2-105. I didn't think they worked at all,but I left them on the other day and when I noticed what I'd done,the left one was flashing. Now it won't do it again.
 
one of the things we had when I worked with Boy Scouts was a left handed smoke grinder. always had one boy going around at a camporee looking for one.
 
i never did blinker fluid, but one i did almost backfired on me, a friend who owned a airplane sent his high school helper who was kind of "socially limited" over to my place to buy 5 gallons of prop wash . he called ahead and told me of the joke, well i decided to carry it to the next step, [ should have known better...] i took a empty 5 gallon bucket pouted in some diesel fuel, water and a little;e naptha for scent then made out a fake receipt for 98.95 for prop wash , and sent the thing back with the helper who was none the wiser, and probably thought he did well., friend was not impressed, it took me awhile to get him to understand the receipt wasn't real
 
I got a story about it. lol.

When I worked at the car dealer one of the salesman was often bringing up the subject of blinker fluid. He thought it was funny UNTIL when he brought his car in for an oil change and I made up a part number for it and billed him for some !!!!! He had smoke coming off his shoes coming back to the parts department to get me to take the charge off his bill. LOL. I gave him a deal on it as IIRC I only charged him a dollar or less for it.
 
My dad was on a Canadian corvette during WWII (link below to the ship he spent most of his naval service on) and he was a bit of a story teller. One story was what they used to do when a new sailor was assigned to the crew. They'd give him a pail and tell him to go down to the engine room and ask the stokers for a "bucket of live steam." I suspect that got a few laughs for those that sent him and the guys who were working down below.
HMCS Hepatica Canadian corvette K159
 
Funny story sort of. I was a fixed asset accountant for a big tree service company here and we bought some new trucks and also ordered 50 gallons of deseil exhaust fluid. I called the dealer and was like what are you trying to pull...Im not paying for this. blah blah.

That experience was when I learned there really is a deisel exhaust fluid...so if car companies can come up with a way to justify using something like BLINKER FLUID they will.........

I thought I was getting played and they had to take me out show me the stuff and putting it in the truck..I called many forman to follow up..do they really do this and looked up and everything.

HAHAHAHAHA
 
(quoted from post at 09:52:19 11/16/17) Been reading about this wonderful,magical lubricant.Will it fix my tractor? what is it made from? Who makes it? More importantly,WHERE do I get it!!

Maybe it's a different brand of fluid where you live.

Here we don't add blinker fluid we remove it.

Our Escalade's left tail light assembly magically fills with blinker fluid and has to be taken off and drained twice a year.

It will completely immerse the back up bulb along with the turn signal bulb, never had to replace a bulb yet just concerned if the water freezes it might crack the lens come winter.
 
Old running joke at work was sending a newbie around looking for the copper magnet.
They tried it on me and while looking at the person that said it I pointed to another newbie and she fell for it. We didn't see her for almost 30 minutes.

Another joke was to send a newbie outside at Thanksgiving time to help unload the turkey truck.
Story went that one time the founder/owner came in and seen someone standing outside in a snow storm and asked "What are you doing?" Response was "Waiting on the turkey truck", The boss said "Oh OK" and walked away leaving a paid employee outside.
Needless to say there was no turkey truck.

The games we 'used' to be able to play!
 
Aisle 15 at Mill's. It's just down from the buckets of gravity and opposite the pack of in-line fence post holes.
 
I was the "new guy" in the outfit on maneuvers in an Armored Cav unit at Yakima Firing Center about 40 years ago- a tank threw a track, the tank commander said we needed a BFR, and sent me 10 miles in a jeep back to the motor pool to get one. The motor pool sergeant said to remind the guys in the field that BFR's were to be sourced locally, and motor pool didn't have one. So back I went. They had the track back on, and showed me the BFR they had used, which of course was a large rock. Uproarious laughter by everybody. I couldn't help but think that I probably enjoyed my 20 mile jeep ride more than they enjoyed wrestling with a tank track in 95? heat, but I had the good sense to keep my mouth shut and play along with the gag.
 
Yes it is called DEF. comes in a 2 gallon jug. Look for a little tank
on you truck with a blue cap. Usually on the passengers side.
Basically cow "P" in a bottle. The damn government getting more up
our.... It is really crazy when they demand Railroad locomotives have
to meet teir 4 regs. That is just insane in my opinion. The newest
Grayhound buses are teir 4. At work two years ago the security guys
went crazy on the radios cause soneone reported a "gas" leak in the
bus terminal area. I walk over and sniff around. I ask the security
guys if a bus just left a few minutes ago? Yes. Had to explain what
teir 4 was. Smells like a mix of hot copper metal, and some other
exotic items. Very diffeeent smell but once you smell it you will
know.
 
Don't forget to send the kid out for a "short circut". When I was a kid an old wise a.. sales counter guy at the local GLF feed store was telling a salesman guy he needed some fence stretchers. Salesman thought he was full of S. Of course there really is such. Let us see. Lefthanded smoke shifter, snipe hunts in Boy Scouts, elbow grease. What others do you remember?
 
A few years back a guy actually had a listing on Ebay for a box of 24 instant post holes. For real I am not kidding?
 
LOL I have used most of those on newbies had some backfire though. Exhaust bearings or muffler bearings are used on boats with inboard engines where the exhaust exits through the hull. Prop wash used on composite props or rotors to prevent delamination. and the last for airwing swabbies is a portable padeye bolts to the scupper around the flight deck.
 
In Annapolis we sent the bosses son to Baltimore to get a 55 gal drum of "track tension" for a dozer. They told him they were out and sent and sent him to the branch in Washington. He was gone all day. I wished they had asked me. I worked all day.
 
True stories;
Construction crew in Arkansas in 1960s, we set a new kid down to sort through a keg of 16-penny nails, told him they'd all been mixed up, left and right, and the left had to go on the left side of the barn....Gave him two boxes, one for left and one for right... He actually set down and sorted thru them for half hour, until we came by and chewed him out You meat-head, you still got them mixed up, look some left and some right!!!! in every box!!!
Told a young girl bicycling East across the Rockies and Continental Divide, she had to stop each time on the Divide and let all the Pacific air out and re-pump with Atlantic air, every time she crossed the Divide. Haw haw. But we came across one pass, and there she was, re-pumping up tires...
 
Also heard about new sailors on boomer submarines, submerged, in mid-cruise, while lifting machinery for maintenance, to send the new sailor to fetch a hundred feet of shore line.
 
We were a little short on concrete. Sent the new guy for a concrete stretcher. When he came back, he said he was told they were fresh out so they would send another yard of concrete. Took him a day or two before he figured it out. Also sent him for a bucket of dry water once. He wasn't happy when he came back.
 
When I was an apprentice they would send a kid to the supply crib for a spool of 1/8 pipe thread. They would send him to the millwrights who sent him to the pipe fitters. Didn't get me but I did fall for the old 'prickfore' routine.
 
In the Army we had a "line stretcher" , only thing it is real. Is part of the hook-up to run a missile on the test shop. It was to simulate a target. We did send some new guys for extra blips for the radar screens. joe
 
Had a kid we sent for a handfull of relative bearing grease. He actually got back to us inabout two hours with a handfull....
 
Shortly after I retired from the Army I came home from work one day. My oldest daughter met me at the door and was irate! She wanted me to kill my 2nd son. She had come home from school and had gotten pulled over by a cop who told her she had a burnt out turn single. She ask Carl who told her she was low on blinker fluid. She had driven back into town to the NAPA store and had ask for blinker fluid! She got real mad when I refused to do anything. I told her "I tried to teach you about stuff like that and you couldn't be bothered".

Rick
 
Used to send guys out for a bucket of live steam. We had one who got wise to the gag. He come back with a bucket full of water and told us he found the steam we wanted but it condensed on his way back.
 
Several years ago my wife and I went out of town for something. We had another couple with us, plus a third lady friend. At some point we were passed by a car who didn't use his turn signals. My wife commented that the guy must be low on blinker fluid. The third gal got real quiet and then asked, "Is that something that I should be checking on my car?"
Needless to say, we all had a good laugh at her expense before we explained it to her!
 

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