Who doesn't love WD-40!

[LORENSWIFE]

San Diego is not only the home of many branches of the military it is also the home of WD-40! NBC San Diego recently saluted WD-40 for raising money for better health care for veterans by launching the Military Collectible Can Series. WD-40 is a local company here formerly known as the Rocket Chemical Company.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Saluting_San_Diego_Company_WD-40_San_Diego-122159484.html

A team of inventors back in 1953 were working on a line of industrial rust-prevention solvents and degreasers for use in the aerospace industry. Norm Larsen while attempting a formula to prevent corrosion by displacing water was successful on his 40th attempt, thus the name WD-40: Water Displacement 40th attempt.

The uses of WD-40 have far overreached its original purpose and it has been used successfully to remove pythons from buses, extricate burglars stuck in air conditioner vents, removal of stickers and as an ant killer.
It protects silver from tarnishing
Cleans and lubricates guitar strings
Rremoves oil spots off concrete
Keeps flies off cows
Restores and cleans chalkboards
Removes lipstick stains
Loosens zippers
keeps glass shower doors free of water spots
Gives floors that just-waxed sheen without being slippery
Removes tomato stains from clothing
Can make a kids slide super fast
Keeps bathroom mirrors from fogging
Discourages Pigeons as they hate the smell
People have even used it on their bodies to relieve arthritis pain...

If you want to show em some love here is the fan club:

http://fanclub.wd40.com/

Have a great day!
~Gail

[BBR]

I have used it (**insert product safety disclaimer here**) with a match to combat wasps. It seems the ensuing fireball burns their wings off and then they are easy targets once they hit the ground. The nests go up in flames nicely with a little WD-40 accelerant as well.

[Thumpin455]

hhhmmmm loosens zippers, I will have to remember that next time the SO wears pants with zippers.

I also found it works great to get the brake dust off the aluminum WS6 wheels on my 98 Formula.

[milner351]

BBR - that must have been an old can- the new stuff isn't flammable!

[DanStokes]

While WD40 is good stuff with many uses, Keith Turk turned me on to an important issue with it - WD40 does not leave a layer of slippery stuff behind once it's done it's job. So it's great for loostening up a padlock, for example, but will not protect it from further weathering. Hence the myriad of other products like Sea Foam. Each has it's place.

Dan

[pdub]

I've got a list of stuff a mile long on my website. And there's also a video where a guy uses WD-40 to inflate a tire hanging on the rim. Spray vigorously inside the tire, add fire, then WHUMMMMP! The tire is inflated.

I didn't believe it at all, another fake video. But my rocket scientist buddy in Florida declared it's possible, and there's more than one video on the net showing it being done. I still don't believe it, at least I can't figure it out, the physics of it...so, what's inside the tire now that it's inflated? I can't figure that one out.

But I can't follow the plot to Gilligan's Island, either.

[daved931]

I've got a list of stuff a mile long on my website. And there's also a video where a guy uses WD-40 to inflate a tire hanging on the rim. Spray vigorously inside the tire, add fire, then WHUMMMMP! The tire is inflated.

I didn't believe it at all, another fake video. But my rocket scientist buddy in Florida declared it's possible, and there's more than one video on the net showing it being done. I still don't believe it, at least I can't figure it out, the physics of it...so, what's inside the tire now that it's inflated? I can't figure that one out.

But I can't follow the plot to Gilligan's Island, either.

I've used ether to seat the beat on tires. Makes a bad smell when you light it, but it pops the tire right out.

[TC]

It's fish oil I say, fish oil!!!!!!!!

[pdub]

It's fish oil I say, fish oil!!!!!!!!

I sure is. If you spray it on a rubber worm, it makes the bass bite on it like crazy. Makes kind of a sheen when you cast it and it hits the water, though, don't want to fish that way around the naturalists.

[Monster]

I find new uses for the stuff every time I pick up a can !!!

[pdub]

It's been said over and over. way before the internet, and so many times since then,

"If it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40."

That's an easy-enough formula for me to remember and go by. I live by it, that formula.

WD-40 powers our beer can smasher for recycle, which by the way, is about worn out. Zillions of cans returned to the system, rather than to the dump. No, we're not green, but we're actually saving on trash bags. At a 5:1 reduction ratio, a bag of smashed cans is a LOT of cans, and a lot of volume taken away from the dump.

Sorry, back to WD-40. That stuff lubricates the can smasher.

[SpiderGearsMan]

Junk
use super lube

[Beagle]

My dad had tennnis elbow and he swears it makes it feel better... I'm sure the Tin Man would have liked one of those little pen applicators for his pocket.

WD-40 works great for removing the duct tape used to "repair" something. I buy the junk by the gallon.

[sedandelivery55]

I use it to get grease stains out of jeans before I wash them. Works pretty good as a quick handcleaner too.

[milner351]

I think I may start getting it by the gallon and using a spray pump bottle to apply it - I think aerosol cans of stuff like that are designed to waste as much liquid as possible so you have to buy more.

I like KROIL for loosening rusty bolts - WD40 is good for lots of stuff - but it's not KROIL.


PDUB - ETHER to inflate big tires that are off the bead - wd40 is no longer flammable.