[Shop-talk] Mega Penetrant - any good

[Arvid Jedlicka]

I have that issue at home. The test was not something that would impress Consumer Reports but at least is was better than unrelated 
anecdotal information from multiple sources.

Arvid


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nolan" <foxtrapper at aceweb.com>
To: "Shop Talk" <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Mega Penetrant - any good


> 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.*
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