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Better than WD-40
- rnuse
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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.
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very useful.
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83 Honda VT750C A
85 Kawie GPZ900 A2
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93 Yamie XV1100 E
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does the acetone flash off or will it stay mixed with the atf. what i'm saying is if imake a batch up will i have to keep adding acetone to keep the mixture right.
Yeah, good Q. Cause acetone goes reeeeeaaaal fast!
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79 Kawie Z1000 LTD
81 Kawie Z1000 CSR
83 Honda VT750C A
85 Kawie GPZ900 A2
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I also have a distributor that carries "wellWorth" products.
A spin off of "Castle" brand products. started in Western New York.
www.wellworthproducts.com
complete line of everything in a can.
Collision supplies and waxes etc.
They have a nice aerosal "A 2 Z" nice light oil spray, i use it on everything.
Their penetrant is called "Thust"
Check them out
Livin in "CheektaVegas, NY
Went thru 25 of these in 40 yrs.
I SOLD OUT! THE KAW BARN IS EMPTY.
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how about zep45? i love the smell of that stuff! :laugh:
ZEP45 IS AMAZING!!!!! we have it in the shop of the telephone company i work at in the summers. The stuff never ceases to amaze me. It works excellent
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Got this in an e-mail awhile back...
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.
That's some interesting info. Thanks for that!
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