[Tigers] Water Valve

[drmayf]

from the MSDS   WD 40 ingredients are

Main ingredients, from the material safety data sheet 
</wiki/Material_safety_data_sheet>, are:

    * 50%: Stoddard solvent </wiki/Stoddard_solvent> (mineral spirits
      </wiki/Mineral_spirits>, somewhat similar to, but not the same as,
      kerosene)
    * 25%: Liquefied petroleum gas </wiki/Liquefied_petroleum_gas>
      (presumably as a propellant, carbon dioxide </wiki/Carbon_dioxide>
      is used now to reduce considerable flammability)
    * 15+%: Mineral oil </wiki/Mineral_oil> (light lubricating oil)
    * 10-%: Inert ingredients

The German version of the mandatory EU safety sheet lists the following 
safety relevant ingredients:

    * 60-80%: Heavy Naphtha </wiki/Naphtha> (petroleum product),
      hydrogen </wiki/Hydrogen> treated
    * 1-5%: Carbon dioxide </wiki/Carbon_dioxide>

Fish oil is a urban myth.

mayf



Sandy Ganz wrote:

>I don't know if I would use WD40 that way, I always thought it was some combination of things like diesel, kerosene, etc. Might be fine but seems to have a nice amount of solvent in it so would be cautious. Maybe some of the simple things like Glycerin or other stuff that was used to keep your rubber in good shape. I think it was something like that recommended by BMW or Porsche for keeping things supple. 
>
>Sandy
>
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>From: "un-cole-a at juno.com" <un-cole-a at juno.com>
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>Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 7:06:04 AM
>Subject: Re: [Tigers] Water Valve
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>This may be old fashion but my father use to grease rubber parts up with
>Vaseline and put them in an air tight bag for storage.
>Believe it or not when we were cleaning the house out to move my mother I
>found some bags with old rubber parts in them that my father had put away. Not
>sure how old they were or what the parts were for but they were in good
>shape.
>WD40 is fish oil based so you could grease rubber parts up and put in air
>tight bags also.
>
>Tim
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