That Bl**dy Blue Can....

StuckAgainSteve · Aug 20, 2013

I always have plenty of PlusGas to hand, in oil and spray forms - proper penetrating fluid that actually works. WD40 is good for making hoses shiny just before you flog the car - that's about it!

myfirstl322 · Aug 20, 2013

WD40 is good for making hoses shiny just before you flog the car - that's about it!

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Foiled, darn

gfromleeds · Aug 20, 2013

StuckAgainSteve said:
I always have plenty of PlusGas to hand, in oil and spray forms - proper penetrating fluid that actually works. WD40 is good for making hoses shiny just before you flog the car - that's about it!

ill try that next time I flog a car
mind you it,ll be a p38 so... you can polish a turd and all that

Bromsgrove Defender · Aug 21, 2013

crashbox said:
Isn't WD40 supposed to attract moisture after a few days?

Yeah I bought some last week

Then it chucked it down Saturday

bushwwacker · Aug 21, 2013

the_wolf said:
Prior to that I used the old fairy liquid and sugar but ill defo be buying more swarfega

Keep your eye open at arco if you've got one local, you can quite often drop on a gallon of orange gritty for a tenner

Datatek · Aug 21, 2013

WD40 is good for stopping tools rusting, things like garden shears, however good old 3in1 is better.

odysseus · Aug 21, 2013

WD40 did a good job of stopping the rocking chair in the nursery from squeaking, therefore it's ok in my book!

dellboy1959 · Aug 21, 2013

Used to use caustic soda back in the 70's when the swarfega ran out,No elf n safety back then lol.

advancedroadcraft · Aug 22, 2013

martynv8 said:
My father-in -law's answer to most things is WD-40.......I don't let him near the cars

You need to teach him the "other" answer"!:
-If it doesn't move and it should: WD40@
-If it moves and it shouldn't: Duct Tape

madtrucker · Aug 22, 2013

i use washing-up liquid and soap powder they seem to react with each other and gets all the oily c**p off my hands and arms.

Paul D · Aug 22, 2013

You know what I found I dislike about WD40 ..

When you've had the lid knocked off somehow and the can is slightly larger than those around it in the boot .. and something moves slightly above it.

You can hear the hissing, eventually smell it, but it's usually too damn late!!

Datatek · Aug 22, 2013

Soak your hand in hot water with biological washing powder, clean in no time with no rubbing.

myfirstl322 · Aug 23, 2013

I've never really got over the euphoria of seeing the new style can with its gorgeous folding straw :der:

Bix · Aug 23, 2013

Butter and sugar make a fantastic cleaning agent. Obviously you shouldn't sink your oily paws into the butter dish. That usually results in a lot of shouting.

wammers · Aug 23, 2013

Wearing latex work gloves negates the need for much cleaning.

the_wolf · Aug 23, 2013

wammers said:
Wearing latex work gloves negates the need for much cleaning.

It does but it limits what you can do. I wore them for a few jobs and it was great not having to scrub my hands but I much prefer working without them

wammers · Aug 23, 2013

the_wolf said:
It does but it limits what you can do. I wore them for a few jobs and it was great not having to scrub my hands but I much prefer working without them

It limits what you can do in which way?

DiscoPol · Aug 23, 2013

wammers said:
It limits what you can do in which way?

Sometimes a slight scraping of the skin is acceptable and quite painless to enable the job to get done a little quicker or better but of you are wearing gloves you just know it's going to rip them, negating the whole point of wearing them. They have their uses but they aren't the be all and end all of keeping the muck off.
Imo.

wammers · Aug 23, 2013

DiscoPol said:
Sometimes a slight scraping of the skin is acceptable and quite painless to enable the job to get done a little quicker or better but of you are wearing gloves you just know it's going to rip them, negating the whole point of wearing them. They have their uses but they aren't the be all and end all of keeping the muck off.
Imo.

No they aren't, but a lot better than nothing. Depends what you are doing i suppose. I take it you have never seen anyone with Dermatitis?

Bemble · Aug 23, 2013

advancedroadcraft said:
You need to teach him the "other" answer"!:
-If it doesn't move and it should: WD40@
-If it moves and it shouldn't: Duct Tape

Ahh, the old Engineering Flowchart :

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