Interesting! I just listened to this week's Car Talk. Click and Clack were on a rant about the legendary Cosmoline that preserved the army surplus Jeeps that many of us were saving our pennies to purchase back in our distant youths. Stoddard Solvent was a primary ingredient of Cosmoline as well. Could it be that lavish doses of WD-40 will preserve our Vanagons?
Tom
-----Original Message----- From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Sent: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 8:48 pm Subject: Re: [VANAGON] another WD40 use
At 06:10 PM 10/26/2009, Ken Lewis wrote: >My grandma once told me it was originally used to relieve arthritis! Just >spray it on. >I was a lot younger then. PVD (preVANAGON days). My sainted Grandpa once told me, age seven or so, that I was full of stewed prunes. I was thirty before I figured it out. The major component of WD-40 is a high grade of mineral spirits formally known as Stoddard Solvent. I like the smell, too. Yrs, D
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