[DeTomaso] NPC - Penetrating oils test

Cullen McCann cmccann1972 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 16:30:52 EDT 2012


This was submitted to the email forum on my sunbeam tiger group.I thought
you might find it helpful. I'm thinking about soaking my whole car, but then
it might disappear.   ;)

Cullen

3925

 

"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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