Replacement for WD40

I bought a little Chinese lathe some time ago. Came coated in this weird sticky red grease. Dont know what it was, but you didnt want to get it on you. However it was very effective in protecting metal.

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Try ......Krol.....

We found a pair of fencing pliers I had picked up out of the road about 10 years ago. They had been rusted shut and nothing would loosen them up and I had threw them in the dump. Over night with a little kroil and they were free. Nothing else had worked.

We use PB blaster at work it works when nothing else will. Blue Creeper is another product thats better than PB Blaster it comes in bulk sizes from grainger

http://www.beaverresearch.com/industrialaerosols.html


BPK works nice.

If you are willing to wash of the yard tools before you use them, you could do what I do at the end of the season.

I keep a bucket of play sand and add used oil to it a couple of times a year. When your done using the tool....say shovel...just thrust it in the sand a few times. The sand polishes the tool, and the oil coats it.

Like I said though...you wouldnt really want any motor oil in your garden. so you should have a clean sand bucket and hose to wash it off beore you use it again.. Very little oil comes off the shovel once you put it in the clean sand.

Somewhere.....though.....and enviro mentalist head just caught fire.

probably cosmoline.

That was my daughter!
LOL

Fluid Film is a great product. Everyone should have a can of it on their workbench.

WD-40 is great for washing off a nut or bolt that has been dropped in the field and you need to wash the dirt off.

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I save my broken pencil points in an old medicine bottle to crush and graphite stubborn locks by dusting the key to the lock with the powdered pencil tips to deliver it into the lock.

My mechanic watched me do it on a car door lock at his shop when he didnt have any molycoat and told me the door lock was still operating smoothly a few months later.

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Shrek, that is a cool bit of recycling!

I was in Auto Bone tonight picking up some PB Blaster and they had a display next to it of there New ( = to WD-40 ) spray lubricant , and it was $ 1.00 cheaper .
Will know how it works tomorrow when I replace the Knuckle and press out and in the ball joint on my Daughters Durango .
http://www.autozone.com/autozone/acc...ier=35516_0_0_

WD-40 used to come in a nice plastic spray bottle- round with a low center of gravity that doesn't tip. Now they have a cheap bottle that is tippy. Lucky my old ones are still working. I buy it in a gallon can, but mostly just use it to machine aluminum. It's great for drilling.

Kroil is great, but very expensive. I use it on the stubbornest fasteners. It doesn't work on outboard motors that have been around salt water. I haven't found anything that penetrates that white powdery stuff from the salt environment. I've soaked things for weeks, applied heat, etc., only to have the threads still covered in dry white powder.

I work in the tool and die trade, and there are many long-term protectants that work well. The best leave a waxy residue. Tool steel rusts very easily. The very best is a hot dip wax which is oil impregnated. You need a hot dip pot big enough for what you are dipping. When I left my job to build a house, I dipped all of my precision tooling. It will be safe for years.

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I have heard that CLR is very good at freeing up marine parts that have the white powdered aluminum problem. The problem is that you have to soak the parts for a few days and most of the time you can't get a good soak on the parts. So you have to spray the parts several times a day. That doesn't sound very productive does it?

I have a neighbor who restores old tractors and he pours CLR into the cylinder on top of pistons whenever he has a locked up engine. Works for him.