On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:50:44 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Mar 22, 9:56Â*am, wrote:
On Mar 22, 2:46Â*am, JIMMIE wrote:



On Mar 21, 10:35Â*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. Â*(actually it's not much of anything) Â*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: Â*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.

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Had to go out one cold ,rainy ,night, on a service call,with my cable
truck, big v8. It was running funny,but it made it
to the station,without any Â*trouble. 4 in the morning ,tired, fixed
the trouble, and headed back to my truck. Cranked but wouldn't
start! Checked everything, nothing seemed, out of wack. Â*10 miles back
in the boonies. I pulled of the disturbutor,
and found that it was soaked with condensation! Thats it! Wiped it
down with a rag, and it would misfire, won't start!

Got out the WD-40, spray the inside of the cap, put it back together,
truck started without a single miss! got me
back home! Â* Â*My 2 cents worth

You're lucky it didn't blow-up the dist.cap!

yea, I've had that happen. ONCE.

From then on I always made sure things were aired out before I
re-assembled. The propellant is similar to, if not, propane - it makes
an ezxcellent starting fluid. I know it's the propellant, not the WD40
itself because from a pump bottle it is USELESS. Once the propellant
lights, of course the Kerosene burns too.