Turpentine (Fallout: New Vegas)

Turpentine is a miscellaneous item in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
Turpentine is a flammable liquid distilled from pine resin, used as a solvent. In Fallout: New Vegas, Turpentine is used to craft Turbo and is used to tan gecko hides, including the golden gecko hide and fire gecko hide. It is also used to craft "potent" and "lethal" varieties of the Cloud Kiss poison in the Dead Money add-on. It is also used to tan Green gecko hides in the Honest Hearts add-on.

Locations in the Mojave Desert

 * Turpentine is occasionally sold by vendors that sell miscellaneous items (see:merchants page for details)
 * Some Traveling merchants sell them occasionally.
 * Boulder City - 2 can be found just left of the "Big Horn Saloon" entrance.
 * Brewer's Beer Bootlegging - 1 can be found in the cellar, in an average locked explosives crate.
 * Cerulean Robotics - 1 can be found in the second room near the doors in between 2 metal boxes.
 * Gibson's Shack - 2 can be found on the floor behind the computer terminal.
 * Gibson Scrap Yard - 2 can be found inside the garage area on a shelf. They are owned, and must be stolen.
 * Lucky Jim Mine - 3 bottles can be found just left on the shelf after you entered the shack.
 * Michael Angelo's Workshop - 2 bottles on the lone workbench, must be stolen.
 * NCR Embassy - 2 bottles on a bottom shelf in a storage room, must be stolen. Enter, go right hallway, quick left.
 * Nellis Air Force Base - 11 bottles in the hangar with the plane, 4 on the south wall by the locker and file cabinets on the bottom shelf. 2 inside of a box that contains 3 wrenches, and two hidden behind that same box that must be moved to reach them. 4 more are on the north wall, on a shelf that is an exact duplicate to the one on the south wall, with the 4 bottles being in the exact same positions, 2 in a crate, and 2 behind it. another 2 are found on a table to the north east of the plane, and another 1 is found on a table slightly south of the plane. All 11 must be stolen, and will result in karma loss.
 * Nellis Air Force Base - Mess hall & munitions storage - A Handful can be found in the back on the shelves by the workbenches.
 * Silver Peak Mine - 3 on a shelf straight in against the back wall.
 * Sloan - 3 bottles in the Machine Shop.
 * Southern Nevada Wind Farm - 3 bottles in the Maintenance Shack.
 * Mojave Outpost - 4 bottles on a shelf in the back of the headquarters building. they are owned, and must be stolen.
 * Harper's shack - 3 can be found on one of the shelves from across the entrance (beware; there are Deathclaws nearby at Dead Wind cavern )

Uses
Turpentine is an ingredient necessary to craft the following items:
 * Tanned Gecko Hide
 * Tanned Golden Gecko Hide
 * Tanned Fire Gecko Hide
 * Tanned green gecko hide - appears in the Honest Hearts add-on
 * Turbo
 * Cloud Kiss - appears in the Dead Money add-on.
 * Dark datura - appears in the Honest Hearts add-on