Not sure if this has been posted yet. But I use liquid wrench much more often now (sold at Autozone, Advanced Auto, etc).
Machinist’s Workshop Mag™ recently published some information on various penetrating oils that I found
very interesting. Some of you might appreciate this. The magazine reports they tested penetrates for
break out torque on rusted nuts.
They are below, as forwarded by an ex-student and professional machinist. They arranged a subjective
test of all the popular penetrates with the control being the torque required to remove the nut from a
“scientifically rusted” environment.
*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. Note
the “home brew” was better than any commercial product in this one particular test.
Our local machinist group mixed up a batch and we all now use it with equally good results.
Note also that “Liquid Wrench” is almost as good as “Kroil” for about 20% of the price.
Steve from Godwin-Singer says that ATF-Acetone mix is the best and you can also use ATF- lacquer
thinner 50 - 50 mix.
*AFT=Automatic Transmission Fluid
What: Scenic Ride When: Saturday, Sept 20, 2014 Sign up before 230pm. Ride departs at 3pm As part of our Indian Motorcycle of Columbus Grand Opening, there will be a scenic ride to the Velvet Ice Cream Factory in Utica, Ohio leaving from Iron Pony. This ride is AMA Sanctioned. Riders who sign up before 230pm will receive a wrist band, good for one free single-dip sugar or cake cone, or dish of ice cream at the Velvet gift shop.
Welcome Andrew! Sorry Craig is too lazy to mount and turn on his camera....you know, so we could all review the stuffing action as if we were Rossi himself.
If you do ONE thing this weekend, come see this show. It's the last of the American daredevils, these guys have a death wish, but they pull it off like it's nothing. Picture Motorhead playing in your basement, but with motorcycles. amazing.