[Public-List] Lubricants

[Jay Davenport]

WOW. This is great to know. Thanks Mike.

Jay



>________________________________
> From: Mike Lehman <sail_505 at hotmail.com>
>To: A30 Public List <public-list at alberg30.org> 
>Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 8:59 AM
>Subject: [Public-List] Lubricants
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>
>Machinist’s Workshop Mag™ recently published some information on various 
>penetrating oils that is very interesting. You might appreciate this. 
>The magazine reports they tested penetrates for break out torque on 
>rusted nuts. They are below, as forwarded by a professional machinist. 
>They arranged a subjective test of all the popular penetrates with the 
>control being the torque required to remove the nut from a 
>“scientifically rusted” environment.
>
>*Penetrating oil .......... Break out torque*
>None ........................... 516 pounds
>WD-40 ..................... ... 238 pounds
>PB Blaster .................... 214 pounds
>Liquid Wrench ............... 127 pounds
>Kano Kroil .................... 106 pounds
>ATF*-Acetone mix...............53 pounds
>
>The ATF-Acetone mix was a “home brew” mix of 50 - 50 automatic 
>transmission fluid and acetone. Note the “home brew” was better than any 
>commercial product in this one particular test and you can also use ATF- 
>lacquer thinner 50 - 50 mix. Note also that “Liquid Wrench” is almost as 
>good as “Kroil” for about 20% of the price. 
>
>~~~_/)_/)~~ Mike Lehman ~~_/)~~~
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