[Public-List] Lubricants

David Gilbert bigkanu at rogers.com
Mon Mar 10 12:27:54 PDT 2014


Right. And the 40 comes from the number of separate tries the  
developers conducted before they got what they wanted.
On 10-Mar-14, at 1:39 PM, Gordon Laco wrote:

> 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
>
> --------
>> 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
>>
>> ~~_/)~~~
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> These businesses
>>
>> support your
>>
>> Association:
> http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html
> Please support
>>
>> them.
> _______________________________________________
> Public-List mailing
>>
>> list
> Public-List at lists.alberg30.org
> http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/pub
>>
>>
>> lic-list-alberg30.org
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> These
>> businesses support your
>> Association:
> http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html
> Please support
>> them.
> _______________________________________________
> Public-List mailing
>> list
> Public-List at lists.alberg30.org
> http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/pub
>> lic-list-alberg30.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> These
>> businesses support your
>> Association:
> http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html
> Please support
>> them.
> _______________________________________________
> Public-List mailing
>> list
> Public-List at lists.alberg30.org
> http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/pub
>> lic-list-alberg30.org
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> These businesses support your Association:
> http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html
> Please support them.
> _______________________________________________
> Public-List mailing list
> Public-List at lists.alberg30.org
> http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/public-list-alberg30.org


 1394479674.0


More information about the Public-List mailing list