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RogerB · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:29 pm Post subject: RedeX Oil Additive

Perm-a-Grip was the product Wayne V Myers invented and sold prior to RedeX coming on the market; the Perm-a-Grip tin dates from about 1930 to 1933 (I think), Redex was patented in 1932.

Penguin45 · Joined: 28 Jul 2014 Posts: 384 Location: Padiham

Metal Box Company used to be the big boy in the tins and cans world.

P45.
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MVPeters · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 822 Location: Northern MA, USA

I was not aware that Redex is apparently still available, marketed by Holts.

MSDS sheets are here:
http://my-sds.co.uk/Admin/Index.aspx
& this seems to be the Redex web site:
https://www.holtsauto.com/redex/
with a short history lesson here:
https://www.holtsauto.com/redex/2015/02/27/redex-history-engine-health/

Interesting how the logo has been 'stylised' over the years & the capitalisation changed in various combinations.

Anybody using it regularly?
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RogerB · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 5:34 pm Post subject: RedeX Oil Additive

MVPeters,

Thank you for your 'post';please explain to this layman what an MSDS sheet is......

Re the RedeX web site....I have been there.....many, many times...

I have also emailed them......many, many times to access their archive....to no avail!
The only 'fact' that the (short) RedeX history has given me is that the RAF (might have) used RedeX in WW2. This,I shall investigate via the Shuttleworth Trust.

MVPeters · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 822 Location: Northern MA, USA

I live in the US!

MSDS is a Material Safety Data Sheet. I believe it's legally required for any product in a commercial setting. It should contain what the product consists of & how to deal with emergencies & some other stuff. I presume something similar exists in the UK.
I'm no chemist, but Redex seems to be mostly benzene - isn't that kerosene or diesel fuel or a derivative?
You'll get a better link if you search for <<<MSDS>>>

Over here we have Marvel Mystery Oil - red, smelly, don't drink it but it cures what ails you.

Don't get me wrong - I always used Redex in my early motoring days. Glad to see it's still around.

Edit: the search should be for msds redex
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RogerB · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2016 5:51 pm Post subject: RedeX Oil Additive

Good afternoon to you from a cold Suffolk....
Thank you for the MSDS info. I shall look into that.
If you have been following the 'posts' re RedeX oil additive, there was a semi
technical analysis (?)of the RedeX compound; no reference was made to benzene, however, someone mentioned somewhere, the words 'snake oil'......
Whatever does that phrase mean.....?

What were your early motoring days?

RogerB.

MVPeters · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 822 Location: Northern MA, USA

My understanding of 'snake oil' is a product that promises more than it delivers - I don't put Redex in that category.
I think 'snake oil' was sold in the late 1800's & typically a bottle of some fairly innocuous liquid, possibly with a high alcohol or cocaine content, & advertised to cure everything from balding to fainting spells to flat feet.
My first 3 cars were all pre-war II & I'm pretty confident that Redex was beneficial.
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D4B · Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Posts: 2083 Location: Hampshire UK

Down this way, we get Molesoil

All the fields round here are littered with these little mounds of soil, apparantly created by Moles....

I'll get me coat.

Peter_L · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 3:37 pm Post subject:

RogerB · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 6:12 pm Post subject: RedeX Oil Additive

Peterwpg,
I will not say a word about the Eassst SSSSuffolk (so) ssssslow ssssnake worm. It is so slow, it makes watching paint dry exciting.....!
However, an application of the well discussed snake oil might accelerate its progress...

Sorry, but I had to bring the subject back to RedeX....somehow.....!

Rogerb

Peter_L · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 7:12 pm Post subject: Re: RedeX Oil Additive

RogerB · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:56 pm Post subject: RedeX Oil Additive

peterwpg,

Yep...........................Suffolk talk for 'yes'....

Rogerb

RogerB · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:17 pm Post subject: RedeX Lubrocharger

Good afternoon to you all and a belated happy and healthy New Year!

I'm now writing Part 2 of the RedeX Saga and I'm looking for a decent photo of the Lubrocharger (not the gauge part).The bit I'm looking for is the bit that sat under the bonnet and was actuated by depressing a chrome button on the dash.

Someone out there must have a picture......
rogerB

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RogerB · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:48 pm Post subject:

Excellent,
Thank you...