Replacement for WD40

WD-40 tip, it clean stanless steal appliances. Shines it up real nice.

I buy my WD40 in the gallon can and used a recycled 20 ounce Dr. Pepper bottle with a pin hole in the cap made with a heated needle to make a squeezable pressure stream application oil can. Later I found a left over extension straw and drilled out a bottle cap to accept the straw and used a bit of hotglue to seal around the straw and now have a tight space soda bottle oil can also.

If you dont have a left over red extension tube handy, a coffee stir straw from a gas station coffee service works just as well.

An advantage to me other than the bulk cost savings by buying the WD in non pressurized gallon cans is that using the heavy grade soda bottles allows the delivery of pure WD with no propelent aeration to it.

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We use either a 1:1 blend of rATF and Acetone or PB Blaster. I buy the PB Blaster by the case so we always have some on hand in the shop.

Jim

The wife can buy her own can, I'm not stopping her.

HermitJohn said: "Way people used to do garden tools is to get bucket sand and pour some old used motor oil in it and put head of garden tool down into this oily sand... Keep your favorite hoe or shovel from rusting."

Are you talking about leaving it in the sand or just plunging it in a time or two to give it a final cleaning and coating? How much oil per gallon of sand (approx.)? Am I overthinking this? LOL

A product called Fluid Film is exactly what you're looking for. It's not cheaper but will last a lot longer.
You can use it on everything. Not petroleum based so it's harmless. Car mfgr's are now starting to use it for undercoating.

See if you can find Valucraft, Multi-Purpose Spray Lube. It is the same as WD-40 and 1/3 of the price.

http://www.wd40.com/uses-tips/

Love my WD40, duct tape and bailing twine - lol...

no idea what to replace any of the above with that would do nearly as good a job in so many ways!

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Our guys at work use a house brand from Ace Hardware. Works well.

For penetrating oil, it is great!!!

Kroil is a better penetrant than either WD-40 or PB Blaster. Although it's been used in industrial applications for a long time, it's never been sold through wholesale or retail outlets. Because of that, most folks have never heard of it.

A long retired maintenance mechanic that worked in an industrial plant swears by it. That was the only product like that they used. I don't know when they started selling it directly to the public. My guess it's been about ten years now.

Thanks for all the information, folks!
Except for the chauvinist!
LOL

I use it for cleaning guns. It works great for getting gunk outta the rifling of barrel

I think I might get some of that Kroil!

I think Free All works better on rusted bolts and nuts but could only buy it by the case , so I just use PB Blaster as it is a lot cheaper . But I still have about 1/2 a gallon of Kroil that I am saving for when I retire to a farm . LOL
On the Plow Forums that I belong to ,the everyone is raving about and switching to Fluid Film .
http://www.fluid-film.com/
http://www.fluid-film.com/applicatio...ure/index.html
Kroil is still a " Little Pricy "
http://www.amazon.com/Kano-Kroil-Pen.../dp/B000F09CF4
http://www.amazon.com/Kano-Sili-Kroi.../dp/B0036RNKCO

Great idea Shrek. I'm going to try that. Thanks.

Wd-40 goes gummy over time, so it is NOT a good long-term lubricant. People using it on sticky locks have probably used it before, and that is why the locks are sticky. It's a fair penetrating oil and a good water dispersant (which is what the WD stands for), but it should be cleaned up and got rid of once it has done those jobs.

There were tests run on various penetrating oils, and while Kroil was pretty darned good (far better than WD or PB), the best of all, twice as good as Kroil, was a home-brew mix of 50/50 acetone and ATF (automatic transmission fluid). For plain lubrication, I guess just the ATF would do, and you wouldn't have to worry about acetone eating plastics either.

I haven't found any gumminess with it ?
I'm not fond of the acetone.
Every winter I get some locks that start causing me problems. Moisture is the main problem..
I just think WD-40 is up to the task for these little niggling problems
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I thought this thread was timely for me because two weeks ago I was going to buy a fresh can, but there was no price for it. Every other brand had a price, but not the WD-40. I went out without any of them.

Actually the preferred lube for locks is graphite powder. comes in a little tube, with a nozzle you insert in lock and give bit of squeeze. Works better on locks than WD, oil, or any other lube.

People suggesting acetone mixed in ATF are suggesting it as penetrating lube to help get say a rusted nut off a rusted bolt. ATF alone works fine for regular lube and ATF alone I think would work fine as a penetrating lube, at least I have used it to free up old engines where piston rings have rusted to cylinder. I'd never heard of mixing acetone with it. But each to their own. May work better in some extreme case for all I know or it may not????

If you just want a can of WD40, wait and somebody always has it on sale. Or go to a different store that puts a price label on things. Like you, when I run across something without a price, I figure its going to be crazy price at the register. Though sometimes just means some clerk hasnt got around to putting price label on it.

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Long term storage of guns and knives I always use Vaseline jelly, wrap the item with newspapers.

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