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

AH, I SEE THE PROBLEM NOW... WD-40 is not an oil! It dosen't make things
work by adding a slippery layer!!! See more further down the post.

> > 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
> :->.

According to the Discovery channel, WD-40 as a chemical compound was
devoloped for work in space, it had to do every single repair job
possible (to electronics, mechanical parts and for repair and protection
tasks) and it had to all be stickable in a spray can. Like all such
things, it later became commercial.

WD-40 is capable of cleaning up oxides and organic compound in tight
passages (I mean REMOVING them, not only melting and letting you bother
yourself about how to get the in-fluid particles out of there) and later
layering the outside with a layer that is a very effective water
repelant that is also a protection from just about anything you can
think of. It effectively clears electrical contacts in indeed very
bizare ways: 1. Ensuring conductivity within the contact and 2.
Preventing conductivity with sorounding contacts (don't ask me how it
does it, but it obviously works very well... Tested!).

Things are no longer stuck once you submerge them in WD-40 because all
the invading dirt is removed from the right places, not because the dirt
is layered with something slippery.

Anyway, when WD-40 is really on the works, you are to see a feedback
spray of vaporized oxides and organic compound that was just removed. I
also found a very interesting function not mentioned in the
instructions, it scares all kinds of bugs,that might be hiding in places
you didn't expect them to be, away from the sprayed area.

> > 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.
 
So it didn't dry up. I remember that in very closed areas with no air
flow, it never dries up! One has to litterately blow into it to do so.
The sprayed area should end up with something either pure as glass or
coloured in yellow-white. Also note that WD-40, no matter how sprayed
will never be on your way once it finishes the task, things that were
supposed to move don't get merged with the plastic layer.

BTW, I was quite astonished to see that WD-40 was produced in a local
*drug factory* according to a british licence. I guess it after all is
considered a cure! =] ;] =]
 
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