[Tigers] WD-40

Marc James Small marcsmall at comcast.net
Thu Nov 29 08:03:23 MST 2007


At 09:47 AM 11/29/2007, un-cole-a at 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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