Before these were a beauty tool, they were used on ships.
The Use?
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Loofah, or air cleaner element for a diesel driven wrist watch
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we used them for something other then the wristwatch
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They made my purifier plates redundant?
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seen the little round nylon pan scourers used as crankcase breather filters in old Listers.
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We used them in the auxiliary smoke tube boilers hotwell to scum out oil and fuel. Of course in the main boilers you would have the LP and HP filters.
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Easy to see you were on a Government ship, we Merchant types had to use old newspapers.
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Actually this was on a commercial ship. It just wasn't in the stone ages you were in JollyJack.