On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:46:55 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Mar 22, 2:38*pm, Steve Barker wrote:
wrote:
On Mar 22, 9:56 am, wrote:
On Mar 22, 2:46 am, 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.
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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 *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. *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! * *My 2 cents worth

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

why would it do that? *Even if wd were flammable, the mixture inside the
cap would be too rich to burn.

The propellant is propane...and is very good at starting small engines.

They stopped using propane as a propellent in WD-40 years ago.