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Steve Barker wrote:

Smitty Two wrote:
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Tony Hwang wrote:

WD-40 is not oil.

You claim to be an engineer, Tony, although your weak grasp of the
English language makes me doubt it sometimes. Maybe your degree is from
some other country.

But let's assume you are an engineer. That should mean that you respect
logic, reasoning, and scientific fact. Now, I've posted details from the
WD-40 MSDS, showing that it *is* oil. Do you have one single shred of
credible evidence from anywhere, that contradicts the manufacturer's
claims?

One shred. Tony? Ralph? Steve? Or are you all just blowing smoke?

just real life experience. this always supercedes any engineering or
fukkin document. The stuff is worthless for the most part. A pump can
of kerosene will to exactly the same thing wd will do.

My own real life experience is that the stuff works very, very well on
many, many things. In fact, it's never disappointed me. Not one time.
Always works as advertised. It sure is odd that we have had such
different experiences.

Here's my supposition. Your uncle was in a bad mood one day, trying to
free a rusted bolt, and grabbed a can of WD-40. But, the bolt stayed
stuck, so he let out a string of cusswords and threw the can in the
trash, profanely declaring it worthless junk.

You were ten at the time. You believed him. You've never actually owned
a can in your life, or tried it. But you keep on believing it's
worthless junk, and you never stop telling everyone you meet how useless
it is.

But that's just my supposition. I could be wrong. However, I'm not wrong
about this: It is oil, and it is a lubricant. Once you strip away the
emotions, those are the facts.