WD-40 and Reg Cleaning??

[JBRES1]

deformed? This is truly troubling. I don't know what it is about WD40 but it is one of my favorite smells.


To each their own.
For me , the scent of "Gun Scrubber" gets me every time.
Jim Breslin

 

[DandyDon]

Did any of y'all read this post by a diver who seems to have as much old school experience as anyone - do did you skip over it. The old salts are sometimes wrong, but often remember helpful tricks that today's experts never knew....

I have used WD -40 externally on my regulators and tank valves for
30+ years. My newest regulator is 25 years old and looks almost new. I have tank valves that are 50 years old and look almost new.

We do not know the credentials of the unknown Inst, much less have him here to stand trial and explain, so this is all pretty silly.

Oh yeah this is Scubaboard.com. Well that explains it.

Aside from that...

not that it matters, but I think the WD stands for war department, not water displacement... cos the british military invented it to keeps killing machines shiney and mobile.

So my dad tells me anyway.

Just felt like joining in

I'm not saying your dad was wrong. There was a misunderstanding - it was wartime, stories got passed.

This is right on. Well the link was bad, but info correct. Here's another one: http://www.distant.ca/UselessFacts/fact.asp?ID=316

From xxxurl] In 1953, three technici...n the 40th try, was born. [/SIZE][/QUOTE]

 

[Nemrod]

I LOVE WD-40. It is indespensible. I am sure Homeland Dufous-ence or some other bizzare agecy will try to outlaw it. N

 

[RiverRat]

I understand Don, but note the old timer used WD-40 EXTERNALLY. If the info is accurate this guy used it INTERNALLY.

Anyways, I see an instructor spray WD-40 into regs students were about to use

 

[DandyDon]

I understand Don, but note the old timer used WD-40 EXTERNALLY. If the info is accurate this guy used it INTERNALLY.

Reportedly - perhaps the scene viewed looked other than it was...?

It may have been a bad action, but this is a hell of a reaction.

Maybe I'm just shellshocked from the way these threads explode so often here...?

 

[RiverRat]

Maybe I'm just shellshocked from the way these threads explode so often here...?

Not me...I've been around SB long enough now to know what threads are gonna blow

 

[DandyDon]

Not me...I've been around SB long enough now to know what threads are gonna blow

Yeah you got here a month before me. Mostly you are more patient, I think. :14:

 

[ianw2]

Hey, DandyDOn, with 70,000 members and a handful who refuse to let facts get in the way of a good post, of course we're going to have a lengthy dust-up or two nightly.

Thank G-d this ain't Dodge City in the 1860's where we'd be arguing with guns instead of words!

BTW - I love that cap! I have one very similar that my Dad brought back from St. Andrews for me many years ago!

Cheers, Dandy! I always enjoy reading your posts.

 

[GLENFWB]

:no I was taking a work safety course. During all the topics covered...was a part on spraying the stuff on your body joints. I did not believe the instructor, people actually spray it on arthritic parts of the joints.......knees, elbows, you name it. They swear by it. She went on to tell us how deadly this can be. Long term chronic, that sort of thing. AND thats absorbed only threw the skin! Inhale it at your own ?????(whats a good word for it)??

25 years ago I worked in an auto parts store in downtown New Orleans. Two old guys (approx. 70 yrs old) came in the store. One guy pulled his tee shirt off while his friend took a large can of WD-40 off the shelf and sprayed him down, all over his back and chest, and then sprayed his elbows, knees, and ankles. I went over to ask nicely, "What the heck are you doing?" They explained to me how WD-40 was the wonder drug for their arthritis...they told me, don't worry sonny, we are going to pay for it. I told them the can was on me....me and the other employees got such a kick out of the sight of these two guys spraying each other down that it was worth a can of WD-40.

Sorry, this discussion just reminded me of a fond memory from years ago.

 

[grassyknoll]

Originally Posted by Nemrod

I LOVE WD-40. It is indespensible. I am sure Homeland Dufous-ence or some other bizzare agecy will try to outlaw it. N

Yep,
WD-40 and Duct tape are all I have in my save a dive kit.