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What are the many uses you guys have for WD-40?

its a great degreaser...and we all know the history of how it was developed...and the main ingredient is FISH OIL...

spray on a burn...relieves the pain
polish stainless steel
use on dashboard and tires of your car
takes the sting away from ant bites
removes bugs from grills and bumpers
removes crayon marks from walls
removes scuff marks
keeps pidgeons off balcony..they hate the smell
keeps bathroom mirror from fogging
lubricates drive belts...autos and washers
prevents rust on hand tools
lubricates a childs slide..makes them zoom
removes tomato stains from clothes
removes glue from carpets
removes all traces of duct tape
keeps terra cotta pots from oxidizing
makes your zipper...S L I D E easily
gives floors that just waxed look...without making it slippery
keeps flies off cows
restores and cleans chalkboards
protects silver from tarnishing
spray on fish lures...fish love it
better than astro glide....lol...you know who you are!

SO LET'S HEAR WHAT YOU DO WITH IT...AT HOME, AUTO, GARAGE, WORK, OR "PLAY"?
 
As far as I know, the main ingredient in WD-40 is Stoddard solvent, a light petroleum product. Nothing from fish.

Rustoleum Red Metal Primer, on the other hand, has lots of fish oil. It was developed by a man who noticed that bare steel trawler decks that were frequently annointed with fish oil stayed rust free even out at sea.

The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacement. It was developed as something that displaced water. It's not a very good lubricant, but it's not bad as a cleaner. I used to keep a fancy 10 speed bicycle as clean as a whistle with it.
 
It made the outer tub of my Maytag washer nice and shiny. Don't ever use it on typewriters, it will gum them up quicker than anything.
 
maytagbear....yeah that was a joke...got your attention though didn't it?

I was in the doctors office reading and old copy of readers digest and it had an article in there about WD40...

history is that it is a water dispersant..hence WD and the 40 came from it took them 40 tries till they got it right...

and they had a bunch of uses for this stuff...many pages....some I never thought of...well, maybe one...lol...

but mostly to me its a great degreaser...great for cleaning parts...I use it in the garage and on washing machines and other small appliances
 
also...as for the fish oil...thats what the article said...when I got home I looked at my many cans and alls I can find is that it contains solvents...unless it's a mixture of somsort and kept TOP SECRET...justhought some of the uses were interesting..........................
 
and thats also like detergents....their made with anionic and nonionic surfactants...kinda like matter and anti matter...and enzymes....what the hell is this stuff really...all manufacturers have the same ingredients listed yet supposed to be different formulas...go figure...even if you call them..customer service has no idea what it really is....just ancient chinese secret...probably ordinary everyday household items in your house...just not sure how to put it all together...when I d you'll see my detegent on commercials...it'll be like clothes pins dancing on the clothes line to YOGITUNES bright whites and colors across america with a free CD in every box.....yeah right..keep dreaming...lol.

even the SLINKY was discovered by some guy in a machine shop...who would have thought...but he made millions...
you do remember the SLINKY don't you?...this was from our generation for you youngin's

yes...I am warped!....god is gonna get me for this one...
 
DO NOT use things like WD40 on burns-nor on belts-it can actually cause belts to SLIP and rot the rubber.You may be able to use WD40 to clean the pulleys but wipe off the WD40 residue before putting belts back on.
 
I approach using WD-40 as a cleaner more than a lubricant. It will eventually evaporate, I've been told. I use it extremely sparingly to get sluggish dials on old rotary phones speeded up to normal again. Using oil would eventually gum things up again, and there would be no cleaning effect, which is all that's needed.

WD-40 works well on creaky door hinges, etc. I use it wherever I don't want oily residue that attracts dirt.

Ralph
 
Yeah Ralph...thats the ticket

use it on creaky things like hinges

and bed springs...for when your doing the HOKEY POKEY!

and don't want to wake the kids....lol

why just the other day, my best friend, Martha Stewart was asking me where I get all my ideas....from the guys at AW, WHERE ELSE!
 
No fish oil... it's an urban legend...

From wikipedia:

WD-40's main ingredients, according to U.S. Material Safety Data Sheet information, are:

* 50%: Stoddard solvent (i.e., mineral spirits -- primarily hexane, somewhat similar to kerosene)
* 25%: Liquefied petroleum gas (presumably as a propellant; carbon dioxide is now used instead to reduce WD-40's considerable flammability)
* 15+%: Mineral oil (light lubricating oil)
* 10-%: Inert ingredients

The German version of the mandatory EU safety sheet lists the following safety relevant ingredients:

* 60-80%: Heavy Naphtha (petroleum product), hydrogen treated
* 1-5%: Carbon dioxide

It further lists flammability and effects to the human skin when repeatedly exposed to WD-40 as risks when using WD-40. Nitrile rubber gloves and safety glasses should be used. Water is unsuitable for extinguishing burning WD-40.

There is a popular urban legend that the key ingredient in WD-40 is fish oil.[2]

Also, check out Snopes for a debunking of the fish oil myth.
 
I once new an elderly man who had athritis in his elbows. He swore by WD-40 to loosen his elbows up when he sprayed them down to soak them before going hunting or fishing. No kiddin' here at all. True story. I saw him spray his elbows many times. Now whether he was getting the "placebo" effect here is another story but I absolutely can see some possible truth in this considering the inner workings of the elbow as well as the knee.
 
bizarre things may be odd....but there have been many things intended for one purpose and yet treats many others...usually by accident...go figure...but if it helps...why not!....providing the benefit outweighs the side effects...

I have crohn's...and they give me remicade injections to calm it down and reduce flare ups...remicade was originally and still is used mainly for arthritis sufferers...but is also shown to help with many other illnesses...one product for many cures....who knew!
 
yes and they say that if Aspirin, which I strongly consider a miracle drug, was introduced in 2009 instead of 1899, that the FDA would have NEVER considered it safe for human consumption. Makes you think about JUST how many drugs are being scrapped yearly that would put an end to HIV, arthritis forever, Hepatitis, and many others too numerous to count that are killing people slowly while the FDA plays god.
 
"Makes you think about JUST how many drugs are being scrapped yearly that would put an end to HIV, arthritis forever, Hepatitis, and many others too numerous to count that are killing people slowly while the FDA plays god."

There already ARE cures for these diseases/ailments.....but we'll never see them since the FDA is in bed with he Pharmaceutical companies. I could tell you stories that would (should) make you angry as Hell!!!
 
yes ...very true...I have a surgeon/friend and he told me there is a cure for cancer and HIV, but the medical profession wouldn't get their greedy funding if they used the cure....and the really sad part is its not a miracle drug...it something they already had all along...

there was a guy on the news back a few weeks ago....he had cancer...cured it himself with some kind of radio waves at home and the FDA and federal gov't came in and took all his reports and computer files...what are they afraid of...puttig them out of business...that it doesn't cost a fortune to cure...FDA commented tha there was no real cure but that they wanted to use his info to study for a possible cure...why dont I believe them...and why do they have him locked up....we know what their really up to...
 
I follow the science world more closely than most (still a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science), and I can assure you there is no such "cure" for HIV as yet. There are some promising leads, but we've seen promising leads before with no successful conclusion.

As for economic incentive... if there was such a cure the pharma companies would be champing at the bit to produce and market it. In the USA alone the market would be huge and extremely profitable.

The problem with HIV is that traditional vaccine technology simply doesn't work because the virus tricks the immune system into destroying itself. Antiviral medications prolong life but are no cure. Some individuals have genetic resistance to HIV-I but not to some other later strains. The latest promising alternative approach is to implant genetically engineered material into muscle tissue. It then produces a protein that interferes with HIV's ability to infect cells. It's worked in mice and is being tested in monkeys. Obviously such an approach has unknown risks and human trials are a way off. Not much consolation to someone who is infected but nobody said life was fair.
 
Well suds, if a person is ultimately going to most likely die of such diseaeses, then why put off human trials on such people? If I were faced with such, I would say go for it, what do I have to lose.GREED GREED GREED.
 
oh my paws and whiskers

Look, nobody will ever accuse me of not jumping on the "big business is bad" bandwagen.

But all this nonsense here about how the Feds and the pharmaceutical industry is hiding a cure for Aids is absurd.

There happens to be a world of scientific and medical research outside of the US. Since someone raised the topic, actually, we are rather more advanced in many areas of science and medicine, not having to cope with the christianists.

And we haven't found any cures, miracle or otherwise for Aids yet, either.

Did the US government under Ronnie Rayguns actively do its best to promote the death of gays? Yes.

Did the Bush#43 administration gut the FDC and research facilities working on solutions? You betcha'.

Which is one reason why gays who vote for Republicans are behaving in a manner I can't understand.

But does anyone really thing the money grubbing pharmaceuticals industry or the US government under a Constitutional executive would hide such a thing? No way! It would be worth billions in profits and guarantee Obama eternal saintly status (and a second term.)

Sheesh. I mean, really. Sheesh.

If you want to stop the Aids epidemic, stop having un-safe sex. Stop sharing needles. Stop discriminating against the folks unlucky enough to have contracted the disease or to have been infected by bad blood.

We need to invest money and resources in finding a cure and a vaccine - obviously. I cannot, however, think of one single viral disease which would be easier to eradicate with just a little common sense.
 
I remember hearing an alternative medicine guru (I think it was Dr. Weil) say that for cancer, at least, there are many people who have been cured with non-standard cures. Plus, there are, of course, people who've been cured by standard cures who shouldn't have been. But nothing had worked consistently enough to be fool proof. If we had a perfect cure for cancer, he said, we'd all know about it.
 

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