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Old 10-06-2008, 01:08 PM
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Re: Happyness is a car that...

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Originally Posted by XT6Wagon View Post
The FIRST oilfilters for passenger cars were aftermarket and used... toilet paper as thier filtering medium.
Wow!
They were really thrifty! And "used" toilet paper as their filtering medium? Not sure about the timing, but I would probably just put "new" toilet paper in my oil filter.
On second thought, In our "out house" we would have had to borrow the sears catalog and find out a way to use it in the filter contraption.

I suppose that "used toilet paper thing" was the first example of "Recycling"?

Interesting...
Keith
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