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Matt Sterbator
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Tue May 5th, 2009 07:34 pm |
Stole this off another forum. Pretty interesting.
Info from a friend:
Happy knuckle busting !
Machinist's Workshop magazine actually tested penetrants for break out torque on rusted nuts. Significant results! 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.
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Posted: Wed May 6th, 2009 06:22 am |
| on boats with heavy rusted parts we used a 50 50 mix of atf and vinegar and it worked great
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AK1000RR
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Sun May 10th, 2009 05:16 am |
| Ever used Mouse Milk? We use it at work on the blackhawk.
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Posted: Sun May 10th, 2009 06:57 pm |
| http://www.mousemilk.com/
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