Wd40 rust inhibitor spray

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$12 for a small can?

I'd just get a proven rust preventative that costs less.

Why bother with an expensive unknown when you can have proven results?

Why bother with an expensive unknown when you can have proven results?

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Exactly! That's why I stick with what I've used for 4 dacades. It works.

While I am a fan of WD-40 I dont use it on my guns.
Good for fishing tackle though especially if you fish Salt Water.

WD-40 and rust prevention aren't terms that normally belong in the same sentence.

WD-40 and rust prevention aren't terms that normally belong in the same sentence.

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The results of Brownell's in shop test of rust preventatives puts RIG grease,Cosmoline and WD-40 as the top performers. Use it or don't as you please(same for ANY product)but it does work and works well.

Immediately after I remove freshly blued guns/parts from the bluing tank and the stop action tank,I spray them heavily (even submerging small parts) in WD-40 while they are still hot. I briskly buff them with 0000 steel wool soaked in WD-40 and rinse the residue off with WD-40. I blow the excess off with compressed air. it has worked very well for many years.

I don't doubt that it has, since you are using a water displacing product to displace water. Thats what WD-40 does best.

That's not the same thing as using it for long term storage. I have seen firsthand that liberally soaking guns with it won't prevent rust under moderately humid conditions when stored for more than a few months at a time. My Dad ruined the finish on his High Standard target gun because he thought WD would protect it. No product can prevent rust once it has all evaporated away.

I still haven't found a better product that Johnson's Paste Wax if one is willing to go to a little extra trouble to apply it.

No product can prevent rust once it has all evaporated away.

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I never had any issues with WD40 as far as rust, but I usually wiped things down periodically over the year with a rag sprayed with it, whether they were being used or not.

Since switching to Eezox, I have left tools and a couple of guns go over a year in a damp, but somewhat moisture controlled basement, without any sign of rust. For that matter, anything Ive used it on has not shown any signs of corrosion or rust. I have found though, that, like WD40, if you dont follow the directions, you may have issues. Less is always better than more.

chevyforlife21 said:

I am talking the specialist stuff it's 12 bucks for a small can

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I've seen it lately in the stores and too wondered if it was as good as it's hype. While the original formula wasn't best long term lube for firearms, it did work well for gettin' the moisture out after hunting all day in the pouring rain. Funny how some folks can't get past the fact that just cause something don't work for them in a particular scenario, that it can(and does in the case of WD40) work well in other applications.

I haven't tried the new stuff having been very satisfied with the old stuff. Here are a couple of project guns that have spent the winter in my shop. They have had nothing on them except original WD-40 and haven't been touched since last fall. My shop is heated but I didn't turn it on because it did double duty as a fur shed during trapping season. I just took these off the rack,did not even wipe them down,just set them out and took the picture. Please enlarge them as much as you can looking for rust. Remember too I am in Alabama and we have had a very warm and wet winter.

Illbet the 'Swamp People' use WD 40.

My mechanic uses a product called "80-twice as good."

Avoid WD-40. I've never read good things about it. Some say that it will destroy ammo; others that it, left in a stored gun, turns to gum. Risks are too high.

I have heard about WD40's magical ability to render ammo inert, seems funny that such a poor performing penetrating oil will work so well on pretty well sealed ammo but is junk on a gun.
It isn't the end all of gun sprays but it has it's place just like so many of the others, for me it's convienience and cost. I can buy it by the case and use it in my shop, home, boat, and gun room.

I think most who have responded did not even read the OP's post.

I also saw this at AutoZone the other day. Curious myself.

I have heard about WD40's magical ability to render ammo inert,

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This is true if sprayed directly on the ammo and given enough time to penetrate past the crimp. I nearly blew a Dan Wesson up when a Super-Vel .357 mag.110grn AP lodged in the barrel and I ALMOST didn't check it(thinking it was a dud). The bullet was lodged in the barrel. Next 5 rounds were varying degrees of malfuctions. All fired but at a very reduced rate,only a couple even reached the target. I had carried the Dan almost constantly,giving it a spray and wipe down every night with WD-40 without unloading it. The remainder of the box of Super-Vel was flawless. Only the six that were in the gun were affected.

You guys keep talking about WD-40 and that is not what the OP ask about.

jimmyraythomason said:

Exactly! That's why I stick with what I've used for 4 decades....

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JimmyRay...hows them bias ply tires still holding up?
Just kiddin.....

Funny how folks like to pay $4.00 a bottle for water to drink when it's the same water that's been here since creation. If something works well,I use it,if it doesn't I look for something that does. I'll most likely try the new WD-40 formula when I run out of the old but not because there was anything wrong with the old.

Two different products for two different things JimmyRay.

Two different products for two different things JimmyRay.

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No same purpose. The new is supposed to last longer. My responses are to those passing around the same old myths that always pop up when the subject of WD-40 is raised. See post #38 as an example.

This thread should be posted as a sticky.

I read the information on the WD40 website and this is what says;

"WD-40® SPECIALIST™ LONG-TERM CORROSION INHIBITOR protects and lubricates metal parts, blocking rust and corrosion for up to one year outdoors and two years indoors. It is ideal for both preventative maintenance and use in extreme environments such as high humidity. Safe to use and 50-state VOC compliant, it provides non-drying lubrication that stays where you spray it."

No mention of use on firearms.

I also looked at the images on the spray can on their website. There is no image of a gun.

That is two places where they omit using the product on firearms.

I am showing my age but back in the 1970's LEO's commoningly used WD40 on their guns. We used in in my department especially when the weather was bad. We would come off-duty, give our guns a hose down inside and out and maybe again before going on duty and stick back in the holster til our next shift.

In the mid to late 1970's a state police department (Illinois maybe but time has faded the memory) put out a warning about use of WD40 after they had three seperate shooting incidents where the officer's revolver failed to fire. They traced the cause to WD40 gumming up in the action and the cold weather thicking it. There were occasions that the ink in pen would freeze while I was out working a accident.

That was enough for me to quit using it.

Since that time there have been much more effective oils/lubes for firearms made. We jumped on Break-Free when it was introduced as a replacement for WD-40.

I fail to understand why some shooters refuse to use more effective proven products for their firearms maintenance. To me this is the same menality of using straight 30 weight motor oil in your modern car because 30 weight has always been good enough. This totally disregards that the manufacturers recommended oil costs the same.

I have several cans of WD40 in the garage and barn. It gets used a lot on tools and farm equipment. But it never gets used on my firearms.

JimmyRay said:

No same purpose. The new is supposed to last longer. My responses are to those passing around the same old myths that always pop up when the subject of WD-40 is raised. See post #38 as an example.

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LOL...One is formulated as a penetrating oil and one as a rust inhibitor. What the OP and some of us are talking about is the rust inhibitor as pictured.
Nobody here is asking anything about using WD-40 on a firearm. What is being ask is about the rust inhibitor not WD-40. Two totally separate products for two totally separate things.
THE RUST INHIBITOR IS NOT REPLACING WD-40. IT IS A NEW PRODUCT SPECIFICALLY FOR INHIBITING RUST NOT A PENETRATING OIL AS WD-40 IS DESIGNED FOR.

Walmart also sells Birchwood Casey Barricade. It is a much better product than WD40 or I would wager the stuff you are asking about and its is designed to inhibit rust on firearms. I've used it for years now with NO rust and no residue on my weapons.

have several cans of WD40 in the garage and barn. It gets used a lot on tools and farm equipment.

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So,how much rust and gum do you have on your farming tools and equipment?