[Public-List] Lubricants

Gordon Laco mainstay at csolve.net
Mon Mar 10 10:39:28 PDT 2014


Hi Rod - 

I think the later; it rinses off grease and oils and leaves metal
unprotected.   Also - and I think I may have been about the last to learn
this - 'WD' stands for Water Displacement.  The product was developed not as
a lubricant but as a fluid for removing water from high technology
equipment.  

Gord #426 Surprise


On 10/03/14 1:20 PM, "Rod" <weatherhelm at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting. That jibes with what we was told some years ago that WD-40 is
> corrosive. Makes sense if it can weaken an iron oxide bond it must be pretty
> aggressive stuff.  Or does it corrode because there is no oil left to protect
> the metal??
Mike; did they happen to test CRC-556 ?


Cheers,  Rod 

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> Original message --------
From: Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net>
> 
Date:10/03/2014  12:10 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to
> all <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> 
Subject: Re: [Public-List] Lubricants
> 

Interesting stuff Mike -

I had something about WD-40 explained to me that
> you folks may already know,
but I didn't. 

Once WD-40 has evaporated, there
> is virtually no lubricant left.  In fact,
WD-40 will rinse off grease or
> thicker oil leaving what no lubrication
protection at all.  It should be
> considered a 'momentary' lubricant.

I had this explained to me in context of
> a car door lock I ruined by
injecting WD-40.  What I'd done was rinse out any
> lubricant that had been
present leaving no protection at all.

Interesting
> stuff.

Gord #426 Surprise


On 10/03/14 8:59 AM, "Mike Lehman"
> <sail_505 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Machinist¹s 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 
³scientifically rusted²
> 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
> ³home brew² mix of 50 - 50 automatic
> 
transmission fluid and acetone. Note the
> ³home brew² 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
> ³Liquid Wrench² is almost as
> 
good as ³Kroil² for about 20% of the price.
> 

~~~_/)_/)~~ Mike Lehman
>
> ~~_/)~~~


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