Frank Erskine wrote:
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:26:11 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave
saying something like:

WD-40?s lubricating ingredients


are utter ****e.

That's because the letters WD mean that it is a water dispersing
fluid, as a lubricant, it is utter ****e that evaporates quite
quickly.

Which is exactly my point and one that Kai The Dysfunctional fails to grasp.

*Water* is virtually as effective a lubricant as WD-40.

Nope, nothing like it. Drys much more quickly for starters.

If you want a general lubricant, think in terms of conventional stuff such as 3-in-1 or Vaseline.

More specialised stuff includes graphite, PTFE, K-Y (!) and so on.

For penetrating oil, PlusGas takes a lot of beating.

Penetrol is an anti-rust stuff.

WD-40 attempts to do all these things, but long-term it fails.

And isnt great for plastics either.