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Originally Posted by Robin Lewis
I was talking to Dave Trevallion, a well know stocker, and he showed me pictures of a process where he put the head of a stock in a crock pot filled with a substance (can't remember what he said it was, some kind of "earth") that acted like Kitty Litter to suck the oil out.
Someone else had a thread on this forum talking about how this was done too. You might search for it. I know that as a result of that thread an FAQ was added to our faq web page that documented the recommended process described in that thread.
I suggest you look for the old forum thread, it had quite the discussion on the pro and con of several processes.
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diatomaceous earth is what you are referring to,It has many uses , I use it when restoring antiques such as old pie safes or cupboards that were used to store oil cans and such , resulting in ugly round oil stains, I put diatomaceous earth in a jar and pour in some acetone to make a paste, the acetone pulls out the oil and the diatomaceous earth holds the oil , leave it on till it drys, wipe off and and repeat till no more oil will pull out of the wood.