Hey fellas, I've never participated in the Healey section before so please excuse my intrusion...I'm here to clear up the good name of my good friend, Linseed Oil. I have, what could be called, an above average amount of experience with linseed oil since I make violin varnish from scratch. For starters, that news clip is all about fear and not about information. I'd Disregard it completely. The real danger has nothing to do with the oil and EVERYTHING to do with the heavy metal driers that are used to jump-start polymerization (drying). Manganese and Cobalt, among others, are two common driers found in the product known as "Boiled Linseed Oil" (It's not actually boiled, it's chemistry) Rags soaked with "boiled" oil AND crumpled up can, through exothermic reaction, spontaneously combust. Thats a fact. It's also the source of every fire associated with linseed oil (or Tung Oil). Linseed oil without an added drier (often sold as Raw Linseed Oil) won't behave the same way and will only dry in a thin layer IF it's exposed to strong UV rays. (not great for much of anything) Neither of them are reliable drying oils without strong UV light. If there is enough heavy metal drier added to linseed oil that it will dry, inside of a frame rail, absent light, then any rag that has come in contact with that oil should be considered very dangerous and laid flat, outside of your home to dry, or submerged in a glass jar filled with water and sealed to prevent spontaneous combustion. Again: 1. it's not the oil itself, 2. there are different versions available, so know which one you have, 3. it's the stuff added to the oil to make it dry faster that's the problem. To further illustrate the differences; Raw, cold-pressed, food-grade linseed oil (sold as Flax oil) can be ingested to lower your cholesterol and make your salad taste good. "Boiled" linseed oil, loaded with Cobalt from the hardware store could burn up your rag pile and give you cancer... It's all in the additives.