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well at least my drive head rails won't rust thanks to the nuclear arms race :P

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Dean Leiber <adit at nationsdial.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 15, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>>>
>> WD-40 dries to a wax folks, it is only a temporary lubricant.  Any problems
>> you fix with wd-40 will be a short lived fix, plus you get it all over heck
>> unless you spray it o a q-tip away from the drive.
>
> WD-40 is not really a lubricant. The WD stands for Water Displacement and was
> developed during one of the missile programs (Atlas I think.) It was used to coast
> products to keep them from rusting during storage of parts. One of the main missile
> contractors was on the coast and had severe corrosion problems of parts waiting
> to be assembled. I worked for a Military contractor near the coast and unprotected
> metals would develop a surface rust overnight, so we used to coat unpainted metals
> with this stuff. Since I was the poor soul who usually got stuck doing the rust removal
> I made sure stuff got sprayed or oiled as soon as I saw it on the Dock.
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