“If it moves and it shouldn’t, use duct tape/cable ties. If it doesn’t move and it should, use WD40”.
I too love the smell of WD40.
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Love the steel straw, but acetone and brake fluid work better than commercial penetrating oils.
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I do, too! I’ve used it for years, and cannot understand why they didn’t become mainstream years ago!
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Yeah, a lot of people use WD 40 for things other than water displacement. But when you resurface any metal that will oxidize, WD 40 does a better job of displacing water and preventing oxidation than anything else I’ve used. Acetone will do a great job of speeding water evaporation but it doesn’t leave the surface protected like WD 40 will.
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Mine has a more modern looking label, and it’s all in black and white and serious looking.
It’s probably the newer version of that because I remember there being an RGS abbreviation on it too.
If I weren’t in the middle of moving and that weren’t buried in boxes at this point I’d take a picture
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I appreciate the all too rare can of beans or something that has this kind of top.
The edge of the lid is still sharp, but I’m less likely to cut myself on it.
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Kinda weird to be reading this post in the waiting room while my husband gets a colonoscopy. Just sayin.
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Any shots of the back of the can? There should be a UPC barcode.
So it’s penetrating oil in a spray can. Is that really necessary? Just get some of the old stuff, if it still exists.
I cut myself often on those. I really love my silicon spatula, for this very reason.
Well I am glad someone does.
One of our common uses for penetrating oil is to maintain outside air intake dampers. Problem is they are by design in the air stream of HVAC systems. People often complain of the odor of WD-40 or other penetrating oils. There is one on the market with a rather pleasant citrus smell. We try to use this brand whenever we need to spray something in the air stream to save the complaints.
You may already know this, but WD-40 was actually created as a water displacement/corrosion preventative for the skin of the stainless-steel “balloon tanks”* of Convair’s Atlas missile, our first ICBM.
Its use as a penetrating oil came later. (And as others have observed, there are far better penetrating oils available, if you go looking.)
* To save weight and cost, the Atlas tanks were stainless steel about the thickness of a dime, instead of the sturdier (and corrosion-resistant) but more expensive aluminum isogrid.
They had to be kept pressurized to be structurally rigid when upright. Painting the tanks would add unnecessary weight, but the salty, damp Florida air warranted something to displace moisture – hence, WD-40.
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Maybe you’ll have more luck Googling it than I did. I definitely would have included such a photo if I’d found one, considering that I posted the product’s trademark information.
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Fucked if I know (or care), I was just trying to help @RandomDude out by posting what little information I could find about the product. Don’t know why you replied to me about it. Was that really necessary?
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