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On 9/3/09, William J Toensing <toensing at wildblue.net> wrote:
>
> I received this message from a good friend of mine who also collects old
> radios & has several old cars. Since rusted parts is often a problem I
> thought this would be of interest to you diesel fans. I haven't had a
> chance
> to try it yet as I just got the message this evening, & it sure sounds
> interesting. What do you think?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Moore" <GTA351C at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "'mike'" <nst at pacbell.net>; "'Dale Tucker'" <daletucker at surewest.net>;
> "'Robert Hopkins'" <1915hudson at att.net>; "'William J Toensing'"
> <toensing at wildblue.net>
> Cc: <robert.e.moore at intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:54 PM
> Subject: wrenching old stuff info
>
>
> >
> >
> > Some of you might appreciate this. Machinist's Workshop magazine
> > tested penetrants for break out torque on rusted nuts.
> >
> > They are below, as forwarded by an ex-student and professional
> > machinist, Bud Baker.
> >
> > They arranged a subjective test of all the popular penetrants
> > with the control being the torque required to remove the nut from
> > a "scientifically rusted" environment.
> >
> > *Penetrating oil ..... Average load*
> > None ...................... 516 pounds
> > WD-40 ..................... 238 pounds
> > PB Blaster ................ 214 pounds
> > Liquid Wrench ............. 127 pounds
> > Kano Kroil ................ 106 pounds
> > ATF-Acetone mix..............53 pounds
> >
> > The ATF-Acetone mix was a "home brew" mix of 50 - 50 automatic
> > transmission fluid and acetone. Note the "home brew" was better
> > than any commercial product in this one particular test.
> > Our local machinist group mixed up a batch and we all now use
> > it with equally good results.
> > Note also that "Liquid Wrench" is about as good as "Kroil" for
> > about 20% of the price.
> >
> > stolen from here
> >
> > http://forums.thecarlounge.net/zerothread?id=4547049
> >
> > --
> > Paul Holmgren
> > Hers:  http://in09.endcancer.org/goto/Cindy.Holmgren
> >
> >
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