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"Jure Sah" <jure.sah@guest.arnes.si> wrote in message
news:3B6BBBC3.6F6FA863@guest.arnes.si...
> 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.

Well, thanks for the complete story.  You learn something new every day!
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