[Shop-talk] Mega Penetrant - any good

[Nolan]

Interesting!

Did some searching around, and found these supposedly as the results of the 
April 2007 Machinist's Workshop magazine comparison test.

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

Do a google on "Ed's red bore cleaner", you'll find you've got half the 
ingredients of a very popular home brewed gun cleaner.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elton E. (Tony) Clark" <eltonclark at gmail.com>
To: <chad at linuxeg.com>
Cc: "Shop Talk" <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Mega Penetrant - any good


> *Donno about Gibbs but some magazine recently ran a test of all available
> penetrants including "Kroil and "Blaster" . . Kroil was best but ALL were
> beaten by the homemade combination of 50-50 acetone and ATF.  I mixed up a
> batch for all my buddies and we are happy with it but it WILL savage 
> paint.*