[DeTomaso] penetrants

boyd casey boyd411 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 20:27:28 EDT 2009


Is it Ford or GM  atf?

Boyd

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Mountjoy <dsmtjoy at cox.net> wrote:

> Don't know if people have seen this but since so many of us are working on
> our cars I thought I'd post this.  Interesting findings...
>
> Darrell
>
>
> "The following may be of interest to those doing restorations.
>
> Machinist's Workshop magazine tested penetrants for break out torque on
> rusted nuts.  They arranged a subjective test of all the popular penetrants
> with the control being the torque required  to remove the nut from a
> "scientifically rusted" environment. The results  are as follows;
>
> 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
>
> The ATF-Acetone mix was a "home brew" mix of 50-50 automatic transmission
> fluid and acetone."
>
>
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