[TR] Useful info...penetrating oils and their effectiveness

[Randall]

That is interesting info Doug (reminds me I need to resubscribe to MW). 

However I have to say that it does not match my own real world experience.
In particular, I find that PB Blaster works far better than Liquid Wrench;
very similar to Kano Kroil.  

And ATF/acetone works about the same as WD-40, for me (which is to say you
might as well spit on it).  It does make pretty smoke when you set it on
fire though; after you've given up on more plebian methods and broken out
the flaming wrench <G>

-- Randall 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:triumphs-
> bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Doug Mitchell
> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 6:55 AM
> To: triumphs at autox.team.net
> Subject: [TR] Useful info...penetrating oils and their effectiveness
> 
> Triumphant ones,
> 
> I received this from a friend of mine and thought I'd pass
> it along to the list.
> Someone last week was talking about trying to get bolts
> loose. Something
> we all have a problem with.
> 
> Doug
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> The April/May 2007 edition of
> Machinist's Workshop did a test of penetrating
> oils where they measured the
> force required to loosen rusty test devices. Buy
> the issue if you want to see
> how they did the test. The results reported were
> interesting. The lower the
> number of pounds the better. Mighty interesting results
> for simple acetone and
> tranny fluid!
> 
> Penetrating oil . Average load .. Price per fluid ounce
> None
> ................. 516 pounds .
> WD-40 .............. 238 pounds .. $0.25
> PB
> Blaster ......... 214 pounds .. $0.35
> Liquid Wrench ... 127 pounds .. $0.21
> Kano Kroil ........ 106 pounds .. $0.75
> ATF-Acetone mix.. 53 pounds .. $0.10
> The ATF-Acetone mix was a 50/50 mix (1 to 1 ratio)."
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