WD-40

I've used WD for years on guns, fishing rods, trailer winches, just about anything really. Never had a problem with it. It might not be the best for anything but it's a lot better than nothing at all.

I've used silicone spray on my guns exterior too. Good stuff. Stops rust, dust doesn't stick to it, and even fingerprints don't show up. Now, I don't just spray it on, I do wipe off the excess. Now I just use the silicone rags I guy at my gun store for about $3.00. A lot neater than a spray.

I've also started to cut those silicone rags up and use them for cleaning patches. Sort of expensive, but not outrageous. They do a great job cleaning the gook out of a barrel or cylinder.

It also seems to be a good fish attractant. Spray it on plastic worms and such. I just spray them in the bag. Not as messy.
 
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I just recently bought a can of WD 40 lithium grease. Mainly cause I was fascinated by the spray/tube flip gizmo (I'm (easily entertained). It worked pretty good on an old rusted up reel lawn mower I wanted to resurrect. I've been using EEZOX as a lube and rust preventative on my revolvers. I used to have rust problems on Colt hammers which are usually in the white. EEZOX seems to be the solution.
In the past I used WD 40 on dot matrix printers. Specifically on the brass carriage bearings that rode on nickle plated steel shafts. I discontinued that practice because the stuff was taking the nickle off the shafts.
I wish they'd put access holes in car door panels so you could spray some lube on car window drive gear assm's..
 
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WD40

Way back when I used to clean guns when I had my gun shop. At 25 per it was a help. Browning A 5s were 35. I found that the darn stuff left a brown residue on guns it was used on religiously. I didn't use it. There was a great product that came out called shooters Choice and I used brake clean by the gallons. Probably not real good for our bodies though TCFE or something
 
Cyrano said:
They teach that as the result of some bad experiences. One example: in Seattle, an officer cornered a bad guy, pulled the trigger 6 times with his revolver, got nothing, and finally swatted the guy on the head with his revolver, ending the conflict. Subsequent tests of his ammo showed the primers wre oil soaked and inert. WD40 has very strong solvents that dissolve the anti-oil coating of primers, allowing the oil in the mixture to de-activate the primers. It takes a while, In the Seattle example the officer had been spraying his revolver with WD40 daily for several years. I keep WD40 away from primers religiously.
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This is more of a case for not submerging your pistol in oil and solvent without wiping it off and not keeping ammunition in the chamber forever (and while you submerge the pistol) than it is a case against WD-40 . . .
 
USAF385 said:
Not an answer to your question, but the WD-40 in the non-aerosol can works great. After three cans that died with more than half the can left, I tried the non-aerosol and have been pleased. You can do a wide or narrow spray, or let it just trickle out by lightly pulling the trigger if desired.
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When can dies with some left in it, put can in freezer for a while, take out and press nozzle. This will pull a little pressure back into can and when warms up will spray out a bit.
 
Like Marshwheeling said, WD 40 isn't ideal for motorcycle chains, but can be useful, especially on off-road bikes. Since WD displaces water and penetrates, it can clean a bikes chain and get water out of it, as well as get rid of light rust. The bad part of WD, is that it is thin and evaporates. It will practically disappear after a while, especially at high speeds. I will use it to clean the chain on one of my drag/street bikes, then let it dry and use a lubricant that won't evaporate, usually chain wax. I don't use it on guns, unless to remove a little surface rust. I prefer to stick to products developed for guns.
Spraying your revolver daily for years? Why would someone do that?
 
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pharman said:
I am NOT advocating this...only sharing what my friend used to do. One day I was at his house visiting and he was in obvious pain from his bad knees. He reached over and picked up a can of WD 40 and liberally sprayed both knees. He swore it helped loosen up his arthritic knees. I asked him if he thought he was the Tin-Man from the Wizard of Oz!
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Pharman, I have heard of WD-40 used for this purpose as a home remedy. It's not as outlandish as it might seem. I've never tried it myself, as I don't have joint pain, but seems as if it would be worth a try for those who do.
 
For a non gun use I find WD-40 to be a very effective stain remover on clothing. My wife used normal laundry spot remover and it didn't work. She dried the clothes and the stain was still there. She said that the clothes were ruined because the stain was now "set". I gave it my WD-40 treatment and the stain was gone.

If you're a homeowner and you don't have a roll of duct tape and a can of WD-40, you're just not doing it right!
 
Wd 40 is good for removing the glue from labels on bottles. I have an endless supply of free WD-40 so I am guilty of using it more than I should. But have not seen first hand any real issues. I don't use it on my guns though.

OP, I think you would have got more relevant answers to your silicone spray question if you had left the WD-40 name out of it! Seems to have spawned some thread drift. LOL.

I re spray my silicone gun cloths with the silicone aerosol spray. I mostly use them on guns that are clean already, that I have to handle, before I put them back into the safe to prevent finger print damage. But I wonder sometimes if an oily rag would be the better option.
 
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WardenRoss said:
We were taught at the police academy (way back when) that never to allow WD 40 near our revolvers as whatever is in the spray can kill the bullet primers.

I really don't know why. But I'm very sure they had a reason to teach that.

Anyone?
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I doused 6 primed cases in WD40 and let them set for a week. After it had evaporated 6 out of 6 fired. It is not a proven primer killer.
 
i found that WD-40 is terrible for bike/motorcycle chains. It attracts dirt like crazy. I'll use PJ1 for that.

I use it as a gun cleaner and it works OK.
 
A good friend of mine had a friend that was a fishing guide in Santee, SC on Lakes Marion and Moultrie. On an off weekend, he took a few of us out on the boat to do some catfishing.
As we were putting the cut bait on our hooks, the guy came by and sprayed the bait with WD-40. No one said a word. I couldn't stand it so I asked why he did that.
He said that about a month earlier he had two guys out and they weren't catching anything. One of the guys told him that he had heard to spray WD-40 on the bait. He said they tried it and started catching fish.
I can't say for sure if it works but I caught the largest catfish of my life that day.
 
pharman said:
I am NOT advocating this...only sharing what my friend used to do. One day I was at his house visiting and he was in obvious pain from his bad knees. He reached over and picked up a can of WD 40 and liberally sprayed both knees. He swore it helped loosen up his arthritic knees. I asked him if he thought he was the Tin-Man from the Wizard of Oz!
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My shooting buddy is a medical Doctor and he has twice experienced the same problem. Older gentlemen would come in with kidney problems and after eliminating all of the obvious problems, he discovered both were using WD-40 to spray their knees for arthritis! The both were suffering from petroleum distillate poisoning. When they stopped using the WD-40, all of their kidney problems went away. WD-40 is NOT the product to threat arthritis!
 
mtgianni said:
I doused 6 primed cases in WD40 and let them set for a week. After it had evaporated 6 out of 6 fired. It is not a proven primer killer.
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You didn't let sit long enough. I got a quantity of steel cased ammo. Some of it was in not nice condition as the cases were rusty on the outside. Since the ammo was rare (7.92x33mm) I removed the rust from the case with steel wool and put WD-40 on the case to stop any more rusting. The ammo was then sealed in a zip-lock bag and stored in a GI ammo can. This was done in 10 years ago. Last month I took a bag of the de-rusted and oiled ammo to the range. Every round was a dud. Every round of the ammo which was not rusty and had nothing done to it, fired with no problem.
 
USAF385 said:
Not an answer to your question, but the WD-40 in the non-aerosol can works great. After three cans that died with more than half the can left, I tried the non-aerosol and have been pleased. You can do a wide or narrow spray, or let it just trickle out by lightly pulling the trigger if desired.
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Although this has nothing to do with the original post should you ever be faced again with a dead pressurized can they can be pressurized again using the method in this video. I have tried it and it works:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mimSDtqljMA[/ame]

terry
 
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