In article ,
LRod wrote:
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:31:41 -0400, "Ollie"
wrote:

LR - What is the problem with WD40? It has worked fine for my cleaning and
other purposes.

It may very well be that WD-40 does an adequate job. It has not been
my experience that it does, with respect to cosmoline/packing grease.
Kerosene, however, cuts it like butter. It's as if it was made for it,
which, in a backwards way, it probably was.

It is my opinion, based on my experience, that those who espouse
mineral spirits, WD-40, and other mild solvents have not tried
kerosene because if they had, they would never bother with the others.

It is that much better.

*Any* 'light petroleum distillate' (kerosene, diesel fuel, gasoline, mineral
spirits, paint-thinner, 'Coleman fuel', naphtha, etc.) works almost equally
as well as any of the others. (WD-40 _is_ built around a 'light petroleum
distillate' base, but it is *very* expensive per unit of said distillates.)

Equipment manufacturers recommend kerosene for two primary reasons:
(1) it is the _least_ flammable of the collection,
(2) it is generally the 'least expensive' of the choices.

In addition, it is *usually* 'readily available' almost everywhere.