WD-40

[Rick Brandt]

You can buy WD-40 in gallon cans and put it into pump bottles. Then the quality of the sprayer is completely up to you.

[Steve Barker]

WD-40 is not a lubricant. (actually it's not much of anything) So you've picked the wrong product to begin with.

[Peetie Wheatstraw]

I got this slightly old can of WD-40.

From the git-go, if I needed a tiny bit of lube, about the least the thing would apply was around 14 times as much as needed.

Now the can is 1/3 full, it stops spraying altogether. I thought it was the spray-head, but I depress the stem on the valve and nothing come out. I know there's still propellent in it. Looks like the cheapo valve clogged its silly self.

Right on into the trash can. Right?

Seems to me the older WD-40 cans (from the 80's) worked better'n this.

Know of a comparable commonly available product with a good valve and spray-head?

Thx, Peetie

[HeyBub]

"Known as 'the can with thousands of uses,' WD-40® protects metal from rust and corrosion, penetrates stuck parts, displaces moisture, and LUBRICATES just about anything. WD-40 is also great when it comes to cleaning grease, grime, and other marks from most surfaces. [emphasis added]"

If you can't trust WD-40, who can you trust?

[Nate Nagel]

In its defense, it is good at flushing muck out of old locks or other mechanical things that you don't want to disassemble prior to lubing them. Also good for drying out wet distributor caps (its original purpose.)

nate

[Tony Hwang]

Hmm BS! WD-40 is solvent. Better use Teflon based lubricant. WD-40 is not oil.

[Ralph Mowery]

Steve you are just wasting time talking down WD-40. It is good for everything including moles, colds, and tight butt holes. I would not even have a can of that junk in my house.

[David Nebenzahl]

On 3/21/2009 4:32 PM Steve Barker spake thus:

Bullshit.

I'm getting *really* tired of hearing this oft-repeated claim.

It may not be the best lubricant for all situations. There may be better products for *some* situations. All true.

But it *is* a lubricant. I use it all the time on my biycle chain; have been for, lessee, about 30-some-odd years now. You're telling me that the effect of lubrication I've noticed all these years is just a hallucination?

It's great for little lube jobs that need just a squirt or two. It also works as a penetrating oil, and, yes, as a water-displacement fluid (hence the "WD").

[Jim Yanik]

Rick Brandt wrote in news:Iffxl.13309$ [e-mail]:

just shows ya how good WD-40 is at gumming things up.... B-)

I had one WD-40 can do the same thing.I punched a hole in the top and drained out the WD-40 into a jar.

[Red Green]

Nate Nagel wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I think I read in one of those household hint things that it's good for relieving certain bug bite itching. Smell will keep futures at bay I would think anyway :-)

[Steve Barker]

that's what kerosene does. people been putting kerosene on wasp stings and bug bites for centuries.

[Steve Barker]

well using your line of reasoning, water is a lubricant also. It lubricates water pumps and water pump seals just fine.

[David Nebenzahl]

On 3/21/2009 5:45 PM Tony Hwang spake thus:

So what's your source for this statement, Tony? I've heard this many times before, but the published ingredients for WD-40 don't support it.

[Red Green]

Steve Barker wrote in news:g9GdnbF3H6l2NljUnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

Geesh, that must work better than a garlic necklace at keeping people with colds and vampires away huh?

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For the most part, they only sell kerosene by the gallon. That alone makes WD-40 more useful. And they don't sell kerosene in aerosol cans. Sure it WD-40 costs more that way but it's often much more useful. I'm not just talking about wasp stings but the hundreds of other things WD is good for.

[David Nebenzahl]

On 3/21/2009 7:10 PM Steve Barker spake thus:

Well, wise guy, water *is* a lubricant (and is used as such in many applications). Obviously, not the kind of lubricant we can use in many situations.

Doesn't bother me in the least. If you don't want to use WD-40, your loss.

[JIMMIE]

For almost everthing WD40 can do there is another product that will do it a lot better. The exception is that I dont know of any spray that works as well at drying out a distributor cap as WD40.

Jimmie

[dadiOH]

1. Grasp spray head
2. Pull out
3. Put in new spray head (from used paint can or whatever)

[dadiOH]

Good trick since it has only been around for 150 years or so :)

[Hustlin' Hank]

Or, at least "claim" to do it better.

WD40 works for me. I buy it in gallons. It smells better than Kerosene.

I mainly use it on my dirt bikes. I use it on the chain because the stuff that "claims" to do a better job is thicker, holds sand and other debris which eats away the O-rings. I also spray it all the bike (being careful not to get it on the disc brakes). It shines the plastic, makes the tires look new and lightly polishes the engine covers and such.

I guess usefullness and quality of ANY product is in the eye of the user.

Can anyone on here name a product that EVERYONE agrees it is the best at any certain task? I doubt it.

Hank