OT Ranting (blather blather blather) Re: In defense of NASA: was Re: Wirin' up blinkenlights

From: Richard Erlacher <richard_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Jun 10 11:34:32 2000

You can use WD40. However, you need to add some Molybdenum Disulfide, which
is one of those compounds they put in grease in order to make it slippery.
The WD40 will evaporate, or whatever it does, leaving the moly-disulfide
behind to do the job. You'll have to buy about a pound at some industrial
supply house, and it will cost about the 5% if what a 1-ounce bottle at one
of the rare suppliers (I couldn't find one when I last bought a pound) that
do have it would cost. Moly-disulfide is a dry powder, and a 1-pound
quantity would be a hundred lifetime supplies. Once you have it, you'll
find that it works for LOTS of lube applications.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: OT Ranting (blather blather blather) Re: In defense of NASA:
was Re: Wirin' up blinkenlights


> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:19:16PM -0000, Eric Smith wrote:
> >Part of it is probably that people who would *like* to be clueful about
> >such things don't know what is should actually be used for (if anything).
>
> WD40 seems to work OK for lube while honing cylinders in car engines.
> But it doesn't have to hang around long for that...
>
> Can anyone suggest a spray lube that *is* a good permanent lube? The one
> riveted hinge on the back door to my house squeaks a lot, and of course
> there's no hole to dribble real live oil in (if I had designed it, there'd
> be a grease nipple, but no one ever asks me!). WD40 fixes it for a few
> months at a stretch, but the NON-riveted hinges have been totally silent
> ever since I packed them with wheel bearing grease, years ago.
>
> John Wilson
> D Bit
>
Received on Sat Jun 10 2000 - 11:34:32 BST