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Re: Dust in the works - who cares

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From: Microfrost
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 06:16
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"Jure Sah" <jure.sah@guest.arnes.si> wrote in message
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> To admit I have never tried on PC hardware, but it worked well
> everywhere else. Radio (on inside electronics), speakers (on coils), all
> of the electrical installation (ok, not all wires), floppy drive,
> computer power supply fan, CPU cooling complex, PC box, keyboard
> (between buttons), any non-organic moving parts that you can find at my
> place, all of the
> car's components worth spraying, etc.

Maybe I'm just sheltered or something, but I'd never heard of using WD-40 on
anything but mechanical (mainly metal) parts, like sticky doorknobs and bike
chains and such.

> What is a "lubricant"? Sorry I'm not a native speaker of english.

Lubricant is a compound that basically lets things move more easily.
Grease, oil, all that good stuff.

> Anyway, WD-40 was designed for protecting and repairing whatever
> electronics that was supposed to ever float in space. I find it works
> quite well on earth too.

I had never heard that before, either.  Again, perhaps I am just sheltered
:->.  Anyone else have a comment?

> I said it protects from dust; it dosen't even need to repel anything
> (atho it does repel water). And it dosen't attract a thing once it has
> dried out, that's when there is a nice little layer of plastic in place
> of it.

I see.  My mistake.  Still, it always seemed to me to leave more of an oily
residue than a plastic layer.  Again, anyone else have a comment?
--

Microfrost
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