On 8/18/2015 12:23 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:17:51 -0400, micky
wrote:


I like WD-40 for cleaning gunky can openers. It would hazardous to
inhale but is evidently harmless to ingest in trace amounts. I wonder if

And yes, harmless. First I doubt if 1/1000th of a gram total ever gets
to the food. The things lubed are the cutting wheel axle and the crank
axle. But say some gets ont the cutting wheel. Wipe it off, for gosh
sakes. And if you don't, most gets wiped off on the inside of the can,
Well, for the first rotation of You make a good point, which I also made. That point being from the crank axle bearing to the food, not much gets into the food. Center posted, following your example. the cutting wheel. After that it's
pretty clean. If you pour the food past that part of the can, much of
what's on the can gets wiped into the food. Let's assume it's spinach,
which is heavy and wipes the can pretty well. It's still not enough to
worry me. If I had a kid, I'd wipe the WD-40 off the cutting wheel.


it does any harm by driving out lubricant. Why don't can openers have
Zerk fittings!

I've been using 2-handled hand can openers. The only thing better is
wall-can openers, and hand can openers have the advantage that you can
put a heavy can on the table and not worry that it will fall on the
floor if the wall can opener somehow loses its grip. . No electricity
in either case.

When one stopped working, I saw one at the supermarket at half price and
bought and used it.

Then I used WD-40 on the first one and now I have two.

Then I needed one for a picnic and bought one at the dollar store.
Definitely not as good as either of the others, both harder to squeeze
in the first time and harder to turn the handle, , but also only a
dollar.



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