Found great rust inhibitor

I find WD40 good for:
Very light, very temporary lubrication. Good for light duty drilling but more cost effective options
Outstanding at water displacement-It's namesake.
Even sometimes well worn used grease displacement
In a pinch a penetrating lubricant but liquid wrench is way better.
It is non conductive.
It is mainly great per it's namesake. use the correct product!

I am using blaster off label as well. It is a dry film lubricant. However I just happened to discover it has great anti corrosive properties. Even better than Breakfree or Eezox. It is not "PB". It is a much newer product that is a Home Depot brand such as "Zep" is.My second choice would be BreakFree even Though some tests show Eezox beating it. Under the right conditions you can make anything beat anything else. Breakfree suits my needs until I found Blaster. The only reason is it is twice as much product for 1/3rd the price and in my tests(unbiased) it is even better at corrosion resistance.
 
He is talking about a Teflon spray. It’s Teflon in hexanes. Spray it in and the hexanes/heptanes evaporate and leave Teflon behind. If it works use it.
 
SS234 said:
I find WD40 good for:
Very light, very temporary lubrication. Good for light duty drilling but more cost effective options
Outstanding at water displacement-It's namesake.
Even sometimes well worn used grease displacement
In a pinch a penetrating lubricant but liquid wrench is way better.
It is non conductive.
It is mainly great per it's namesake. use the correct product!

I am using blaster off label as well. It is a dry film lubricant. However I just happened to discover it has great anti corrosive properties. Even better than Breakfree or Eezox. It is not "PB". It is a much newer product that is a Home Depot brand such as "Zep" is.My second choice would be BreakFree even Though some tests show Eezox beating it. Under the right conditions you can make anything beat anything else. Breakfree suits my needs until I found Blaster. The only reason is it is twice as much product for 1/3rd the price and in my tests(unbiased) it is even better at corrosion resistance.
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Curious, what tests have you done comparing the two?
 
WD40 is simply ordinary Mineral Oil (same as you can buy in any pharmacy) mixed with Stoddard Solvent (also known as Mineral Spirits or Orderless paint thinner) as a carrier agent.
The Stoddard Solvent thins the oil enough to penetrate well or spread a good coating on surfaces, then evaporates in seconds leaving just the mineral oil.
Mineral Oil is non-toxic. As the Stoddard Solvent evaporates so quickly, there is no residue of it, so WD40 is actually safe to use on knives used for food prep... at home. It is not permitted for commercial food prep as the mineral oil in it is not rated as 'food grade.'
As long as you don't drink the stuff, WD40 isn't going to cause any problems and is an excellent rust preventative when used for the proper applications that apply to mineral oil.


Stitchawl
 
000Robert said:
I just cleaned it with 99% alcohol and put it into the block with a note on it to remind the girls that I just sharpened it.
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Leaving a note on a sharp knife implies that you sometimes have knives in your kitchen that won’t split hairs. SHAME!!
;)
 
scdub said:
Leaving a note on a sharp knife implies that you sometimes have knives in your kitchen that won’t split hairs. SHAME!!
;)
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I just sharpen them when they give them to me. If they are happy with one that doesn't split hairs, why should I worry about it?
 
000Robert said:
I just sharpen them when they give them to me. If they are happy with one that doesn't split hairs, why should I worry about it?
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You shouldn’t - just teasing - thus the ;)...
Cheers,
Scdub
 
scdub said:
You shouldn’t - just teasing - thus the ;)...
Cheers,
Scdub
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Sorry scdub scdub , I didn't mean for my post to sound snobby. I forget sometimes how sensitive people are online. I have a hard time with it and I'm not very good at it. So please don't ever think that I mean to sound snobby in any of my posts. :)
 
000Robert said:
Sorry scdub scdub , I didn't mean for my post to sound snobby. I forget sometimes how sensitive people are online. I have a hard time with it and I'm not very good at it. So please don't ever think that I mean to sound snobby in any of my posts. :)
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No sweat bud!
 
Chronovore said:
I don't like using toxic substances on my EDC gear. There are too many great non-toxic alternatives such as Lubriplate FMO 350-AW for me to consider something like this.
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I worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 35 years and we only used FMO 350-AW. They also make different grades of the FMO oil
 
FrankieJ*DWM_EDC said:
The closest thing I’ve found to WD40 is Mineral Spirits but WD is less of a solvent than Mineral Spirits. I’ve heard it’s made from fish oil, and all kinds of things. I believe it’s not a petroleum product. The recipe is patented and pretty well guarded. But if it was dangerous they wouldn’t be able to suggest all the uses that they do without getting in serious trouble and countless law suits. They tell you to spray it all over your house and can be used as a hand cleaner. If it was that bad they would not be able to do that. Also recently going through some YouTube videos Greg Medford suggests that a little WD40 is all you need.
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It's never been patented has it? They list some expired patents for their Specialist line, and a patent in Canada for the spray straw on one of their cans, but I've read that they never patented the original in the 50s.
 
Unicorn161 said:
It's never been patented has it? They list some expired patents for their Specialist line, and a patent in Canada for the spray straw on one of their cans, but I've read that they never patented the original in the 50s.
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Really?? I've never taken the time to really dig into it that's just what my pop always told me that we'd never really know what it was
 
There have been stories about how it was never patented so they wouldn't have to release the formula because once the patent expired anyone could make it. The SDS makes it seem like it's mostly some sort of mineral spirits though.
 
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