Foreman in Gary kept telling me to soak my brick tongs in oil, and I finally tried it last month

Thea Hernandez · 2026-10-08T00:45:05.190338+00:00

I thought he was just old school and it would make the handles a greasy mess, but after 6 months of fighting slipping grips on wet brick, one coat of 30 weight cut my hand fatigue way down on a 3 day chimney job. Anyone else's old timer push something like this that actually panned out, or is it mostly hit or miss?

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