Steve Barker wrote:
JIMMIE wrote:
On Mar 21, 10:35 pm, David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 3/21/2009 4:32 PM Steve Barker spake thus:



Peetie Wheatstraw wrote:
I got this slightly old can of WD-40.
WD-40 is not a lubricant. (actually it's not much of anything) So
you've picked the wrong product to begin with.
Bull****.

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").

--
Made From Pears: Pretty good chance that the product is at least
mostly pears.
Made With Pears: Pretty good chance that pears will be detectable in
the product.
Contains Pears: One pear seed per multiple tons of product.

(with apologies to Dorothy L. Sayers)

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

the proper cure for a wet cap is a new cap. Once wet, always wet in the
case of distributer caps. Once they've been wet, they're never the same
again.

'Proper cure' and 'Get Home' are 2 different things. Although with
modern electronic ignitions and cap material and design, I haven't had a
wet cap causing no-start in many many years. As a kid, with the bakelite
or whatever caps (especially on VWs), it was a routine thing. Of course
back then, driving junk, I always kept a few tools, WD40, and duct tape
in the car. It probably didn't help that me and my buddies liked to
puddle-surf in our cars.

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aem sends...