Interesting fact for model boaters

[bzubee]

Grown on the castor bean plant native plant to India, castor beans are the deadliest plant poison in the world. The bean contains ricin, which is 12,000 times more poisonous than rattlesnake venom and can kill an adult in just a few minutes. Castor oil is safe to consume; just don’t try to cook the beans.

 

[Jerry T]

What about cooking the "bean oil" in our motors? LOL

 

[John Beardslee]

Another interesting story about castor oil is that it was the main lube used in airplane engines during WWII and at all the air fields in England pit toilets lined the whole area to accommodate the sudden rush of ground support troops that inhaled vaporized castor oil while warming up the engines. Castor as most of you know is an excellent cathartic. Much harsher than most modern ones thus you would get what we up here call the "Michigan Quick Step".

 

[bsmtboy2]

That's probably why we sometimes find racers on the do not fly list!!!!