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Article #150Re: Oil for plastic laptop hinges
From: Rod Speed
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:54
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:54
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Frank Erskine <frank.erskine@btinternet.com> wrote: > 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. Nope, nothing like it. Drys much more quickly for starters. > 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. And isnt great for plastics either.
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