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Re: WD-40

To: boballen@sky.net
Subject: Re: WD-40
From: dmeadow@juno.com
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 16:32:16 -0500
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 16:12:27 +0100 Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
writes:

>For the distributor, I use contact points cleaner. For the guns, I use
>gun oil.

And for your grandfather clock, use clock oil.  For the reasons you cited
concerning the attraction of dust and lint, WD-40 is not appropriate for
fine machinery likes clocks and Smiths speedos (tenuous LBC content). 
Over time it will gum up the works.

David Littlefield (whose clockmaker father got $30 an hour cleaning WD-40
out of clocks on the Redneck Riviera)
Houston, TX

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