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Article #149Re: Oil for plastic laptop hinges
From: Frank Erskine
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:50
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:50
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:26:11 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote: >We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave <davenpat@btopenworld.com> >saying something like: > >>>>WD-40?s lubricating ingredients >>> >>> >>> are utter shite. >> >>That's because the letters WD mean that it is a water dispersing fluid, >>as a lubricant, it is utter shite that evaporates quite quickly. > >Which is exactly my point and one that Kai The Dysfunctional fails to >grasp. *Water* is virtually as effective a lubricant as WD-40. If you want a general lubricant, think in terms of conventional stuff such as 3-in-1 or Vaseline. More specialised stuff includes graphite, PTFE, K-Y (!) and so on. For penetrating oil, PlusGas takes a lot of beating. Penetrol is an anti-rust stuff. WD-40 attempts to do all these things, but long-term it fails. -- Frank Erskine
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