It makes pretty good dry cleaning fluid too, to remove grease stains from clothes. Be careful on synthetics.
It makes pretty good dry cleaning fluid too, to remove grease stains from clothes. Be careful on synthetics.
CRC's closest replacement seems to be Power Lube. Their best penetrating oil seems to be Freeze Off. It cools the material to help it wick the solvent. Amazon reviewers say it works when nothing else will. One reviewer wasn't satisfied. He still had to get a breaker bar and a pipe to remove overtorqued lug nuts. :)
Propane is good stuff. Mapp, when the tank gets cold, it doesn't flow gas properly.
Radiator antifreeze works great for preventing things like locks and snow thrower chute cables from freezing. Just put some antifreeze in a syringe and shoot up.
Howzabout you morons buying a can of graphite suspended in a solvent. Napa auto stores carries 'em. Douche yer locks with the graphite/solvent, then wait for the solvent to evaporate. No more frozen locks. And yes, it gets cold, here. I've seen my locks work fine at 30 deg F below zero. That's 50 deg F below freezing.
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Used to do that with some throttle cables back in the "early yeaes" of cable operated automotive throttles.
That's exactly what "lock ease" is.
NOW you tell me!
Sorry, when the lock mechanism fills with water and it freezes, the lock doesn't work. It's raining now and will freeze tonight. I bet when I go out to the shed in a few minutes and pop the cap off the Ace 'weatherproof' lock water will run out. Graphite, Tru-Flow, BreakFree, WD-40, doesn''t make a difference.
I've seen folks who cut part of inner tube, and make a flap that covers the entire lock. Bet you've done that?
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Well, duh!!
My guess would be, you should prevent the water from getting into the lock in the first place. Much to my amusement, this is one time a small piece of duct tape jes might actually solve yer problem. ;)
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Chunk of innertube over the lock to keep water off of it does work, though.
Stormin Mormon wrote a minute ago: > I've seen folks who cut part of inner tube, > and make a flap that covers the entire lock. > Bet you've done that?
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Stormy quoted: "now that you have read everything before doing any thing...."
No, that's my next step. No reason to rush into things an weatherproof the lock in August.
Damn straight. I pulled the batteries out of all the bikes and wrapped them up for the winter yesterday. It's raining now, supposed to freeze overnight so tomorrow's drive to work will be a pleasure.
I got the snow shovels lined up by the deck. See if I can shovel snow one more year without having a coronary event.
Testify!
My father died of a heart attack after shoveling snow at work. That crosses my mind every now and then as I shovel the driveway. Especially the 'at work' part. He was going to retire when I graduated college. I did so that spring. I'm getting close to the same age and I'm still working although some days I wonder why.
Good friend died at 59 last year while out shovelling snow with his sons. I'll shovel ligh snow - up to 2 inches or so, and away from doors and cars, but the heavy lifting is done by my Yamaha blower.
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