Need Help: What kind of person uses a lot of WD-40?

[rino451]

I use about a gallon of it a year mostly for cleaning where soap and water won't work. Great for cleaning break dust off motorcycle rims. Also, I used it to wipe down the painted black crankcase and cylinders on my bikes. Shiny!!! Once the fumes and smoke cleare. I wipe down almost all the metal bits on my bikes with it as a quick "detail" job.

For stuck stuff, I use Kroil usually or a BFH/BFW.

 

[Gator]

About the only thing I use it for is removing the adhesive on my windshield when I change my village sticker each year.

Remember the scene in "King of the Hill" where Hank has trouble getting the lid off his big can of WD-40, so he takes a small can out of a pouch on his belt, sprays the lid on the big can (which then easily comes off) puts the small can back in the pouch and continues his chore with the big can?

Brilliant

 

[musher]

I just used a can to save a ryobi electric chainsaw that ended up on the floorboards of an inflatable filled with saltwater (ryobi electric chainsaws don't float)

How the inflatable ended up filled with salt water and why I happened to have an electric chainsaw is another story which turns on glacier ice and meyers dark rum, but which is too long to get into here.

When I got back to the big boat, I just turned the saw over and over until the salt water stopped running out. I sprayed a full can of wd40 into all the holes cracks and other openings in the chainsaw, then stuck the whole mess in the fuel locker.

A week later, i tried out the saw with a new battery and it works as well as it ever did. No rust either.

I've also used wd40 in a similar fashion to bring back outboards that got submerged--although I managed not to submerge the outboard on the raft during the chainsaw incident.

I don't usually use the stuff on my guns, but I would in a flash if I ever submerged one in salt water and couldn't get it cleaned right away with my normal gun lubes.

 

[stevekl]

WD-40 is a must if you want to maintain reloading presses.

 

[rickomatic]

I am also informed that it is a fish attractant, and spraying it on lures brings a lot of bites.

I used to use it on my salmon flies and flashers years ago when i did a lot of salmon fishing in Puget Sound. I actually made a mixture of WD-40 with a little anise oil and commercial fish attractant. It worked for me.
Hey, the rivers here open for salmon this week. Maybe I'll mix up a batch of the stuff to squirt on my lures to see if it still works....LOL.

 

[Kentak]

Seems like good 'ol WD-40 has its fans and detractors. In my opinion, it has a place in the arsenal of home and shop chemicals. It's sort of a "jack-of-all-trades, master of none" kind of product. For any use you can think of, there is probably another one that does the job better, but WD-40 is there when you need it, like a Leatherman tool. It displaces moisture, penetrates, acts as a solvent for tarry, gummy gunk, and lubricates. No, it's not primarily a lubricant, but the MSDS does say it's about 35% petroleum oils. After the carrier substances evaporate, a thin coating of oil will remain and provide some lubricating and protective properties.

BTW, no kerosene.

http://www.wd40.com/Brands/wd40_faqs.html

 

[RH822]

OK, guess I'll be the devil's advocate. I use and have been using WD-40 to clean and lube my guns for 30+ years. After I clean them and before I take them out to shoot, I will put a couple of drops on oil in the appropriate locations. Never rusted, gummed up or damage any parts as a result of using WD-40. I also keep a can in my range bag just in case. As for the primer thing, never had that happen either, I'm not saying that it doesn't, just never seen it...never seen Bigfoot either.

RH

 

[FIRE COP]

I LIVE ON AN ISLAND...WE RIDE BIKES FOR TRANSPORT...99 dollars a year will buy you a bike per year....salt..corrosion..5 dollars..a year W/D 40...(W/****** 40)...chains...gears..spray em down 2 times a week..cheap transport for under 105 dollars a year...buy a new one...we also drive jags..porsches...etc......but we only buy a new bike each year.

 

[230RN]

lee n. field wrote:

BTW, it's just the thing for getting stuck labels out of dot matrix printers.

I forgot to mention earlier that it's good for rejuvenating the dot matrix ribbons. Pop the top, being careful to not mess up the threading of the ribbon, squirt some in there (evenly) and wait a couple of days.

Voila! Like new!

I used to have a surplus electronics store, and I used this method all the time to restore the ribbons in surplus printers that I got in.

Not that I use dot matrix printers anymore, but I keep an old Epson around. Like a gun. I'd rather have it and not need it...

 

[Justin]

WD-40: Good for spraying on stuff. Bad for closing threads.