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To: "un-cole-a@juno.com" <un-cole-a@juno.com>,bamcnulty@optonline.net
Subject: [Tigers] WD-40
From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:03:23 -0500
At 09:47 AM 11/29/2007, un-cole-a@juno.com wrote:
 >If memories serve me right, WD40 is made with fish oil.
 >The story goes that the military was trying to find something they could be
 >wiped on the nuke missiles that would keep them from rusting while they
were
 >in the launch tubes.
 >
 >WD40 is one of the formulas they came up with. I have the story somewhere I
 >will have to dig it up.
 >

Close, but no cigar:  see the Wikipedia article
for the full story.  There is no fish oil in WD-40.

Marc


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