Alternative Uses for Oregon Wild Hair Moustache Wax

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We love our customers and their moustaches; one of the most rewarding parts of this business is hearing from the people who buy our products. What we love even more is our customers' ingenuity. In order to share with the world our customers' brilliance, we have have established this spot on our web site to display to the world alternate uses for Oregon Wild Hair Moustache Wax, conceived by the people who use it. So please, write us and share your ideas.

Hello Mark and Susan:

I decided to contact you about your Moustache wax product. My friend uses your product and says it is the best. I do not have the type of facial hair to require it, so I was not an OWHE advocate until recently.

I am a retired engineer and one of my hobbies is astronomy. I set up a small observatory in my back yard and find some of the most enjoyable eye lenses are of the old WWII military surplus variety. Those eyepieces are a bit on the complicated side with multiple elements that slide around and change position depending on the setting of the user. Usually there is at least one helical cut travel component that will bind if not lubricated but will slip and shift angles if the lubricant is not of the proper viscosity, and it drives the other components.

Because of the age and grunginess of the eyepieces I can find they require cleaning and rebuilding to be workable. One of my frustrations has been the lack of a proper lubricant to use on the articulating eyepiece components. The oil or petrochemical lubricants are not viscous enough and do not remain where they are placed. They are absurdly messy and tend to “creep” across the optical elements over time, which requires constant maintenance. The viscous ones are not slippery enough to allow multiple element changes without using a destructive amount of force. Silicon based products are “too” thin and slippery; and allow binding of the smaller components.

These eye lenses have not been produced since WWII in the 1940s; so the original lubricants designed for these things have also been unavailable for decades.

Fortunately, my friend left his Oregon Wild Hair Moustache Wax on the counter one afternoon when I was again cleaning one of my eyepieces. I experimented with it for a while and of curiosity I tried your product as a lubricant on an eyepiece. It is fantastic and works better than anyone can imagine. It stays where I put it. It is extremely clean (you can not imagine how much I appreciate that) and allows a reasonable amount of force to move the elements, and they operate as sooooooooth as glass. When I stop movement everything stays where it was until I move it again. It maintains a reasonable amount of shear strength to hold everything in place but still permits multiple elements to work together with out shifting, binding or creep as changes are necessary. This must have been the way they worked when new.

I am unaware if anyone has had this particular use in mind for your product, but it is exactly what I needed for my optical projects and could not be better. If you have an interest in pursuing a new idea I think amateur astronomers would be very interested in your products. It could be of use to anyone else that needs a clean lubricant for finely machined components. I also build radio controlled models and I can see a need there too. Maybe at the local hobby shop for modeling enthusiasts? Clock repair?

…..and it smells sooooo much better than petrochemical grease. You will soon be receiving my order for some of your products before my friend gets upset with my “borrowing” his.

Keith, Hillsboro, Oregon

I have used Oregon Wild Hair Moustache Wax as a lubricant for any number of moving parts from squeaky hinges to the rotor bar on a vacuum cleaner.

Mark Coyl, Creator of Oregon Wild Hair Moustache Wax

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