[DeTomaso] FW: rusted nuts

[GReg LAndwehr]

FYI

>
> Machinist's Workshop Mag (tm)recently published some information on
> various penetrating oils that I found very interesting. Some of you
> might appreciate this. the magazine reports they tested penetrants for
> break out torque on rusted nuts.
> They are below, as forwarded by an ex-student and professional
> machinist.
>
> 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.
>
> *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. Note the "home brew" was better
> than any commercial product in this one particular test.