[DeTomaso] FW: rusted nuts

[boyd casey]

This was published several months ago and my confirmation of these results
was far less then scientific,( I can tell you that the "Home Brew" of
Acetone and ATF fluid worked great) I was trying to remove the Bolts holding
mt calipers that had apparently been in place for thirty plus yeras and cam
right off after soaking for a short while.
Boyd

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:18 PM, GReg LAndwehr <pantera928 at bellsouth.net>wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>
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