On Friday, 15 June 2018 00:03:30 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 14/06/2018 17:56, tabbypurr wrote:
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:25:07 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 14/06/2018 11:51, tabbypurr wrote:
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 09:37:58 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 14/06/2018 08:24, tabbypurr wrote:
On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 10:56:39 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 13/06/2018 08:06, tabbypurr wrote:

I see they've changed it to try to improve its performance for
other things than water displacement.

Ah, so is that a thinly veiled, "they changed it when I was not
looking - it used to be just white spirit, honest guv!"

I didn't say it was white spirit, I said it was white spirit with a
little oil. Putting that in funny language changes nothing.

Your words "It's nearly 100% white spirit"

I thought it prudent to point out that it isn't nearly 100% (or even
close), and it isn't technically white spirit either (even if it is a
similar petroleum distillate solvent).

The "little oil" is actually quite a bit (25%). The quantity of oil per
unit volume is in some ways less important, since when using it for
lubrication, the purpose of the solvent is to deliver it into position
from an aerosol can, and then evaporate, leaving just the oil.

Is white spirit an effective water displacement product?

But it still scores bottom of the tests as lubrication &
penetrating
oil, so not one to recommend.

Its a general purpose product. It will not necessarily compete
with specialist products in each and every category. However many
people value it since its a single can of stuff that in many cases
will do the job well enough without needing to keep a wide
selection of solvents, cleaners, penetrating oils and lubricants on
hand.

Ah, marketing talk. It's just oil & solvent, all of us have oil and
most of us some sort of solvent.

I have some 10W30, and some acetone in the workshop... how is that
supposed to help?

And it's consistently at the bottom of the performance table, often
in the usually doesn't work category as a 'general purpose product.'

Got any links for these performance tables?

Love it if you want,

I neither love or hate it. However I find it works well enough for some
jobs to make it worth keeping a can around.

I've no time for it.

Fine, but do you suppose you could stop posting nonsense about it?


1. I said it was nearly all white spirit. It was.

In your imagination it seems.

2. One performance tested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0kIPEzeTQ8

Ah yes, that would be the one where he sprays WD40 on a bolt and then
later points to a different one and claims it was the WD40 one...

If you have tests showing it's of decent quality, let's see them.

You are the one making wacky claims...

So you don't have any. OK.


NT