The Medway Handyman wrote:
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
saying something like:

WD40 has been used for years as penetrating AND lubricating
Snake oil.


It doesn't do what it says on the tin for very long.
Oversold ****, in other words.
You can get exactly the same pentrant and lubricant action by making
up a spray bottle of a gob of engine oil with diesel.
The ONLY thing WD40 does well is act as a moisture dispersant,
temporarily.

Shame the worlds best known lock manufacturer doesn't agree with you innit?

Hmmmm. Yale v unknown newsgroup person.


Dave, you're digging yourself a hole.

Yale is a shadow of the company it used to be. It's been brought and
sold a few times in the last 30 years and is now merely a brand owned by
ASSA Abloy, who also own Union, Chubb, Mul-t-lock, Ingersoll, Adams
Rite, Besam, and a load of other brands. Yale doesn't have its own
marketing or website; It's run in the UK by Mul-T-Lock UK (wholly owned
by ASSA Abloy) as just that: a brand.

http://www.mul-t-lock.co.uk/brands.aspx

http://www.assaabloy.com/en/com/Abou...ds/All-Brands/

Yale cylinder products are made in China and quality is IMHO nothing
like what it used to be. It must be said that Yale mortice locks are
made on the same production line as Union and Chubb product and some of
their BS3621 Locks are exactly the same as Chubb (apart from the fact
that Chubb still has nice brass keys).

As an aside, Assa Abloy are losing the rights to use the Chubb name for
commercial and domestic locks next year, so all chubb locks will be
re-branded as Union and all Chubb secondary security (window locks, etc)
will be re-branded as Yale.

http://www.chubb-at-heart.co.uk/questions/1

Assa Abloy do in fact market a lock lubricant:
http://www.assa.co.uk/index.php?cid=3519# which, judging by its MSDS is
a PTFE product. They also advocate against using other kinds of
products, including graphite in their cylinders. WD40 is not
specifically mentioned, but here's a quote from a PDF:

"Warning!
Never use grease, oil or graphite based lubricants in locking
cylinders as these lubricants cause functionality disruptions
and clogs up the mechanism."

It has to be said that there's nothing special about Yale any more, it's
merely one brand out of sixty owned by the world's biggest security
products conglomerate and at that it's a subsidiary brand that's well
down the corporate chain of command. It comes as no surprise to me that
the instruction leaflet is off-message.

Cheers,
DaveyO