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Re: Penetrating oil

To: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Penetrating oil
From: Don Malling <dmallin@attglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 13:41:23 -0400
Hi Paul,

What is your opinion of Dinitrol 3125?

Don Malling

Paul Hunt wrote:
> I've used Waxoyl for the sills and other box sections, but it does need to
> be thinned to liquid and/or sprayed on a hot day or it will stick where it
> hits and not run, that is if you can even get a spray out of the gun.  But
> even several days or weeks after spraying, getting some decent sunshine onto
> the panel, will liquidise it and cause it to drip out of the drain holes.
> Needn't worry too much about getting to the tops of the box sections as they
> usually rot through at the bottom, but thin/hot enough to spray and using
> the purpose-made cavity adapter (a long plastic tube with a nail stuffed in
> the open end) will reach anyway.  I have used clean engine oil at the front
> and rear sections of the sill where they are behind the front and rear wing
> cover panels as the gap is so narrow that Waxoyl tends to bridge the gap and
> not run down adequately, even in hot sunshine.  Others have talked of
> sealing up all the drain holes and pouring clean engine oil in the top to
> fill the sills (don't forget there is an inner and an outer cavity) then
> draining it out.  This can be reused in other cavities (probably not the
> engine or gearbox!) unless it has flushed out a load of water.
> 
> PaulH.




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